On 7/7/13 1:26 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/6/2013 11:11 PM, TommiT wrote:
I can see machine translation that is based on statistical
correlation with a
sufficiently large corpus of human translations, but I don't see much
hope for
actual understanding of non-literal speech in the foreseeable future,
and I'm
actually rather glad of that.
You haven't read Ray Kurzweil's latest books then or you just don't
think he's
right?
Spend a little quality time with Siri. I did, and discovered it was
hardly any better than Eliza, which is a few lines of BASIC written in
the 1970's.
Ow come on.
Andrei
