  We examine how much of the contemporary progress in artificial intelligence
(and, specifically, in natural language processing), can be, more or less
directly, traced back to the seminal work and ideas of the Austrian-British
philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, with particular focus on his late views.
Discussing Wittgenstein's original theses will give us the chance to survey the
state of artificial intelligence, and comment on both its strengths and
weaknesses. A similar text appeared first in Spanish as a chapter of CENTENARIO
DEL SILENCIO (2021), a book celebrating 100 years since the publication of the
Tractatus.
