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From: elna@netcom.com (Esperanto League N America)
Subject: Re: two agendas of artificial intelligence
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Gregory Aist <aist+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes in a recent posting (reference <smRqe7600iV0A1RpZ6@andrew.cmu.edu>):
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.ai.nat-lang: 29-Oct-96 Re: two agendas of
>artifici.. by Esperanto N America@netc 
>> >I personally think it would be ridiculous to expect the average human
>> >to learn a language just because it would be convenient for computers,
>>  
>> Well, I know quite a few people who learned such computer-convenient
>> languages as Cobol, Basic, C, etc. Perhaps those who learn this kind
>> of language are not "average humans".   :-)
>>            [...snip...]
>
>I know this was meant tongue-in-cheek, but I think there's an
>uncomfortable amount of truth in it.  (Unless you happen to be working
>on spoken language, in which case it's quite reassuring.)
>
Of course the ultimate goal is a talking/understanding computer ("Open
the pod bay doors, HAL") but there is a looong way to go before this is
realized.  I know that many speech recognition programs require an
artificial staccato delivery on the part of the human speaker. Is anyone
offering courses in "How to talk so your computer understands you?"


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