I really hate pieces like this. Hofstadter should know better than anyone how state-of-the-art machine translation works. Only absolute laymen would use words l

I really hate pieces like this. Hofstadter should know better than anyone how state-of-the-art machine translation works. Only absolute laymen would use words like “understanding” to describe what’s going on. It’s really good, and we’re a lot further than we were 10 years ago but honest to god people should just drop using anthropomorphic laden terms like “understanding” and “intelligence” into these discussions. The I in AI is unfortunately taken too literally. Maybe just do yourself a favor and watch the videos to CS224 [1] and then you’d be less surprised that these systems do not “understand” (whatever the hell that even means, unless rigorously defined). [1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/ http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/