On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 08:26:03 UTC, 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.
One word: Watson.
