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"More speculatively, being able to use natural language to supervise or give feedback to automated systems that have little to do with NLP seems very very useful."

I agree with this, and it isn't entirely speculative. One of the most useful applications I have seen that goes beyond googling is generating css using natural language. ie, "change the background to blue and put a star at the top of the page". There are heavily sample selected demos of this on twitter right now https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457...

This is definitely practical, though I wouldn't design my corporate website using this. could be useful if you need to make 10 new sites a day for something with seo or domains