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Re: Buy Yahoo quick Microsoft!

Snit wrote:

> ZnU stated in post znu-007466.16240321072009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on
> 7/21/09 1:24 PM:
> 
>>> That's not how I would have phrased it. (It sounds like you're blaming
>>> the hardware.)
>>> 
>>> I would have said that humans aren't smart enough to write algorithms to
>>> do what Alpha is trying to do. Or perhaps our "tools" (computer
>>> languages) aren't smart enough to allow for algorithms of this sort to
>>> be written.
>>> 
>>> It's not clear how much processing power an advanced algorithm like this
>>> would require but I don't believe that we can currently do a very good
>>> job no matter how much hardware we throw at the problem.
>> 
>> Consistently providing meaningful responses to free-form natural
>> language queries is probably an AI-complete problem. That is, it
>> requires human-level artificial intelligence.e
> 
> Many of the people in COLA are not up to that level!  :)

I agree with you completely.
It's possible that we would disagree in detail, but as your statement
stands, yes, I agree ;-)


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