On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 10:07:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/7/2013 2:16 AM, John Colvin wrote:
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.
Ask Watson what its favorite color is.
Oh well.
That's asking for an awful lot more than good natural language
processing.
