Can we really teach computers to understand language, like a human can, or are they more like parrots, able to memorize certain words and phrases without actually grasping the meaning? A new paper presented by MIT researcher Regina Barzilay and her graduate students indicates that computers will one day have the capability to truly understand [...]
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