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What is machine reading?

Posted on 2015/04/162016/09/14 by mendicott

What is machine reading?

According to Wikipedia, Natural language understanding “is a subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension“.

Also according to Wikipedia, Oren Etzioni “coined the term machine reading” [Allen & Etzioni, 2013: From Star Trek to Siri: How the Machine-Reading Revolution will dictate the future].

The original DARPA “Machine Reading Program” (circa 2010) has subsequently been renamed “Probabilistic Programming for Advanced Machine Learning” — which to me is a strong indication that machine reading requires both probabilistic programmingand advanced machine learning….

See also my Quora answers to:

  • Is there a computer program that can understand short stories, articles or paragraphs?
  • Is there AI for writing and language arts?
  • Meta Mirrors Twitter’s Ideological Decline Through a More Covert and Enduring Transformation
  • Yann LeCun’s Vision and Meta’s Diverging Paths on Artificial Intelligence
  • Meta’s AI Bots Quietly Introduce Automated Moderation Tools into Facebook Groups
  • Meta’s Lockout of Marcus Endicott Exposes Strategic Blindness in the West’s AI Race
  • Meta Superintelligence Labs Marks Meta’s Strategic Consolidation of Its AI Efforts

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