Earle Jones  wrote in news:cdhnh9$1bv9$1
{at}darwin.ediacara.org:

> In article ,
>  r norman  wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:42:34 +0000 (UTC), Earle Jones
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >"Computers cannot begin to handle language"?
>> 
>> > 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You are woefully out of date.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.


Do you consider "jeet jet" to be a clever sentence? (If you don't 
understand the reference, try looking it up on Google). Of course there 
has been a lot of progress. My point is that even with all the progress, 
the smartest computers are much stupider than the stupidest humans, at 
least as far as language abilities are concerned. Will they stay that 
way? No, given the increase in computer abilities, they should be more 
than able to handle even the complexities of real spoken language within 
20 years at the outside, the good lord willin' and the creek don't rise. 
I was simply trying to point out that the abilities that indicate high IQ 
on tests - such as math ability -  may be conceptually much simpler than 
some abilities that are ignored on such tests - such as the ability to 
interpret mumbles.

Yours,

Bill Morse
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