On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 20:38:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/7/2013 5:41 AM, John Colvin wrote:
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 10:07:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Ask Watson what its favorite color is.
Oh well.
That's asking for an awful lot more than good natural language
processing.
Is it? Yes, that's a serious question. I don't presume that
human language is something independent from our self-awareness.
Fair point.
There is, however, a reasonable subset of language (note: not
subset of words, phrases or grammar explicitly) that can be
interpreted without said self-awareness.