When I was an undergraduate, artificial intelligence seemed to be a discipline long on promise and short on results. (Everthing was about “10 years away”, even 20 years later, it was still “10 years away”.) Therefore, I was pleasantly impressed when IBM’s Watson machine won an episode of the US quiz show Jeopardy in early…
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When meaning matters
In my time at ABB the official company language (according to our CEO, Goran Lindahl) was “poor English”. Native speakers cut slack for those less proficient and many of us were grateful that we didn’t have to learn several languages in order to get the work done. A side effect of English as the lingua…
