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NELL - Advanced Artificial Intelligence that Learns and Tweets

NELL, the Never-Ending Language Learning system, has been "teaching" herself by closely mimicking the way humans learn. Scanning the internet she finds text patterns, allowing her to semantically group together related topics in order to better learn the human language. On top of this, she is on Twitter, joining the millions of others tweeting about every move they make.

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You Said It - A Tour of Human Language - Part I

This is the first blog in an 8-part series that will take a look at human language and demystify some of the why's and how's of our communication. The first installment, "Patterns in Particles: Talking Means Moving Air!" introduces the miraculous human language ability and talks about language as it happens outside the body.

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Oct
27

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What is the least spoken language on Earth?

Parasyte: Actual recognized languages, not like the language you and a friend made up in 6th grade. (2 answers)

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What kind of computer language would I need to know to make a forum?

Parasyte: Would it be HTML, Javascript, PHP, what? (3 answers)

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How many computer languages do you know?

Parasyte: I know some HTML, a little bit of Javascript, some BASIC, and maybe some more. (5 answers)

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