From Apple’s Siri to Honda’s robot Asimo, machines seem to be getting better and better at communicating with humans.
But some neuroscientists caution that today’s computers will never truly understand what we’re saying because they do not take into account the context of a conversation the way people do.
Specifically, say University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral fellow Arjen Stolk and his Dutch colleagues, machines don’t develop a shared understanding of the people, place and situation – often including a long social history – that is key to human communication. Without such common ground, a computer cannot help but be confused.
Read more from Berkeley News | January 11th, 2016: https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/01/11/will-computers-ever-truly-understand-what-were-saying/