Re: Why is NLP such a hard topic?

Apokrif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Niki Estner :
>
>> Is some mystical "soul" required to process natural language????
>  
> More precisely, you need a human soul.

I find the use of that term slightly offencive.

Humans has organs (speech organs, brains, neural system and whatnot)
evolved over a long time to the point of being able to produce and
understand very complex communicative languages.

In recent years, we have constructed _computers_, that are much better
than those organs at some things, like addition, but much less capable
in other areas, such as understanding and communicating.

It's popular to liken computers to brains, minds or "souls", but I don't
think that has to do so much with the fact that computers are very much
alike to those things, but more with the fact that computers, of all the
things we have created, are most like those things.

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