Speaking of linguistics, The Voynich code has finally and really been cracked. Can you believe it was written by Dominican nuns in a proto-Romance language. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-bristol-academic-voynich-code-century-old.html
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:20 PM Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > >> AI does exceed human abilities in a narrow range of problems, such as >> playing Go, recognizing faces, or determining that a young woman who shops >> at Target is pregnant before her father realizes that fact. >> > > I kid you not. See: > > > https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/#699048646668 > > > > I submitted the above message as letter to the editor. I hope I do not > upset the professor, who I admire a great deal. I am a little surprised to > discover I seem to know more about AI than he does. Maybe more about > linguistics applied to Japanese and Chinese. > >
