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It isn't "clickbait" just because natural language contains semantic ambiguity. Contextual clues - both textual and cultural - indicate that "everything" here i
by madgar 10y ago
It isn't "clickbait" just because natural language contains semantic ambiguity. Contextual clues - both textual and cultural - indicate that "everything" here is limited to software and not all things in existence, and to go further, open-source software.
Natural language would cease to function were it not for audience's ability to disambiguate based on context.
- yeukhon 10y agoIt is a clickbait if a technical person and a technical company are speaking ambiguously. HN itself is a property made up of layers of software and hardware which partially fall into the the "everything [software]" list. If you think I am taking way out of context, that's right, because technologists should not talk like a futurist. That's my point. If this were an article titled "Google AI can understand everything!" but the "everything" is limited to just figuring out a cat video, that would be considered a marketing clickbait. So why are we giving a pass on this article?