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There’s a narticle in this week’s New Scientist that I thought all y'all might want to be aware of: Computers can learn the meaning of words simply by plugging into Google. The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed. […] Paul Vitanyi and Rudi Cilibrasi of the National Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam realised that a Google search can be used to measure how closely two words relate to each other. […] From this a computer can infer meaning, says Vitanyi...Read it all online at: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6924
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>narticle trying to confuse them? 
formerly known as etaoin...
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No, he just was eating a norange while wearing a napron. (Thanks, WW. )
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It was a nindefinite article as discussed here before. As for confusing, I guess we're back to Heisenberg!
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In reply to:
As for confusing, I guess we're back to Heisenberg!
How can you be so certain?
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> How can you be so certain?
LOL! There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing!
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As for confusing, I guess we're back to Heisenberg!
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How can you be so certain?
I guessed then googled to find out what guest meant ;)
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Apropos of nothing, I first read the name of this thread as "Google defies meaning."
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Computers can learn the meaning of words simply by plugging into Google. The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed.
Maybe just a little bit of an over-dramatization – maybe?
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