> In my head- and maybe this was naive- I had thought that, in order to attempt these sorts of tasks with any facility, it wouldn’t be sufficient to simply feed

> In my head- and maybe this was naive- I had thought that, in order to attempt these sorts of tasks with any facility, it wouldn’t be sufficient to simply feed a computer lots of text. (Tasks here referring to questions in the New York Regent’s science exam) Same for me. But it makes sense of course that learning from text only is entirely possible. I certainly have not directly observed the answer to eg. 'Which process in an apple tree primarily results from cell division? (1) growth (2) photosynthesis (3) gas exchange (4) waste removal', I have been taught, from text books, what the answer should be. I do have a much better grounding of what growth is, what apples and apple trees are though.