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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on thought and creativity, prospects for computers and artificial intelligence for mimicking human thought are also discussed.
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Natural Language Programming

There's another article at About-AI concerning Natural Language Programming, which discusses the use of english as a programming language. Like other rational people, I'm very sceptical about the entire concept. Large programs that are written explicitely (with standard languages such as C++ for example) are almost never perfect, so how can an implicit, ambiguous natural language succeed at all? Programs will potentially be swamped in bugs.

A small step towards this goal has been taken by HumanML, an XML like expansion for the web intended to convay information semantically rather than in a specific language. As a consequence, things such as humour would not be lost in the translation. See Programmers to encode human behaviour on New Scientist.

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Tuesday 18 September, 16:44
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