On Sunday, July 07, 2013 13:38:33 Walter Bright wrote: > On 7/7/2013 5:41 AM, John Colvin wrote: > > On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 10:07:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> Ask Watson what its favorite color is. > >> > >> Oh well. > > > > That's asking for an awful lot more than good natural language processing. > > Is it? Yes, that's a serious question. I don't presume that human language > is something independent from our self-awareness.
Well, it _is_ considered to be an AI-complete problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete - Jonathan M Davis
