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I't funny that so many people assume intelligent beings who build space ships capable of interstellar travel would need our help with understanding human langua
by kybernetyk 10y ago
I't funny that so many people assume intelligent beings who build space ships capable of interstellar travel would need our help with understanding human language.
- icebraining 10y agoWhy not? We can build space ships (technically, even interstellar ones - they'll eventually get there!) and we barely understand some of our own languages.
- BHSPitMonkey 10y agoThat might follow if our use of language were always purely logical; my experience is that this is often not the case.
- johnchristopher 10y agoFollowing up on a conversation I had with my grandmother this morning when she used a denomination that hasn't been heard nor read for more than a century and which led to a dictionary war with me leaving the house in rage against know-it-all old people who can't use everyday word for everyday thing but must conjure up baroque and archaic terms for common household appliance and tell you "only you doesn't know that"... good luck to the aliens.
- macintux 10y agoI had to regularly ask my great-aunt when she'd use the construction "quarter of 12" whether she meant 11:45 or 12:15. Language is bloody hard.
- venomsnake 10y agoHonest question - how fast can we train AI to know language?
- daveguy 10y agoCurrently we can't train AI to know language. We can train very poor translations with many existing examples of translations (see Google translate). The translation is a crude mapping from one word string to the other and does poorly in general to convey meaning. With a completely novel language there is virtually no technique to train AI to know the language.
- flashman 10y ago> I't funny The amount of things an alien would have to know to understand what happened here is immense.