Ben, What's your definition of reading?
What about this: --------- http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=read 15. Computer Science. To obtain (data) from a storage medium, such as a magnetic disk. --------- Do you have any doubts now that Google can read? But wait, let's consider definition #1: --------- http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=read 1. To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences). --------- Google's crawler does exactly that. It examines written pages and grasp meaning of these pages. Unfortunately Google doesn't extract as much meaning as humans, but it definetely can extract some meaning. What program extract more meaning from general text in natural language? MS Word is also on the way to strong AI, but MS Word is far behind Google. Actually MS Word has stuff which leads away from strong AI. In particular I mean rule-based natural language processing. Monday, March 14, 2005, 6:42:35 AM, you wrote: > Your use of the words "read" and "write" and "know" is a bit too far > stretched, IMO. > By your definitions, MS-Word is also a strong AI, due to its spell-checker > and grammar-checker and document summarizer... no? ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
