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Topic: Will there come a day...

Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #46,152

When programming languages become so advanced to where it will more or less be typing an English (or whatever language the scripter wants) sentence into the script for the computer to decipher?

Is this the day we have to fear? Will it require advanced artificial intelligence?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 14 seconds later[^] [v] #609,309

no catherine

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 11 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,310

Those already exist. They’re not really much of an advantage for describing the complex math, logic, and structures.

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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 8 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,311

@previous (C)
Oh, what languages are they?

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,312

@609,310 (C)
That

And I would rather describe something like a for loop with a for loop rather than an English sentence.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 13 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,314

@609,310 (C)
that is just parsing words. that is not having a computer truly comprehend and act upon a natural language.

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Anonymous C replied with this 11 years ago, 13 minutes later, 48 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,315

@previous (B)
Natural language has some undefined behaviors. The effort to truly understand a language and its edge cases would be pointless.

The value of regular languages is that they can be efficiently parsed. Studying math and computer science exposes how programming languages work, which reveals exactly how incongruent they are with natural language.

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 50 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,316

@previous (C)
i agree with you, but that means that the answer to OP's question is no. in order for computers to fully parse (and be able to act upon) natural language you'd have to have an AI

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 7 minutes later, 57 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,319

@previous (B)
So basically the day when computers can fully understand natural languages is the day robots takeover?

Anonymous B replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 58 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #609,320

@previous (A)
also no

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 24 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #609,323

@609,319 (A)
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Killer Lettuce?? !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #609,369

@609,320 (B)
How can you be sure? Are you a robot?
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