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Subject: Re: AI Natural Language
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 18:17:00 EDT
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One interesting problem with Esperanto is that when humans
start using it on a regular basis, the language evolves away
from it's totally regular verb construction.  This would
(probably) not happen if a human and a machine were using it.
When the human said something that was not "correct", but was
nonetheless understandable, the machine would not understand it,
and the human would have to restate it correctly.  Now, if the
machine could understand "incorrect" utterances then the
language would still evolve and that would be truly interesting.
And intelligent??

JD Brennan
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