What you did with pripple has a name.

Linguists call it the : the meaning of a word is given by the company it keeps.

A linguist named John Firth put that same idea in one line back in 1957, decades before neural networks existed:

"You shall know a word by the company it keeps."

This does not claim that context is the whole of human meaning. It gives a machine something measurable: words used in similar surroundings can receive similar representations.

That is enough to build the map the chapter has been looking for.