Re: Number: It's Origin and Evolution

From: Earle Jones (earle.jones_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:03:53 +0000 (UTC)

In article <cdgpv0$10eu$1@darwin.ediacara.org>,
 r norman <rsn_@_comcast.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:42:34 +0000 (UTC), Earle Jones
> <earle.jones@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> >"Computers cannot begin to handle language"?
>
> <snip a lot of history including web sites illustrating natural
> language processing by computers>
>
> >You are woefully out of date. There has been a lot of research over
> >the past 20 or 30 years on natural language understanding.
> >
> >If what you are saying is that you can think up clever sentences
> >that will fool the system, you are right.
> >
>
> Let me just emphasize what I am sure Earle intended --
>
> If what you are saying is that you can think up clever sentences that
> will fool the system, computer or human, you are right.

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Well put!

earle
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