Watson can analyze the meaning and context of human language, and quickly process vast amounts of information.
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It is also worth remembering that gesture is still a crucial part of human language, even for those with normal hearing.
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This research helped give rise to a theory that human language has its roots not in speech, but in hand gestures.
This scenario implies that several variants of modern human language could have emerged somewhat independently in different locations, rather than solely in Africa.
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Terence McKenna, in his book "Food of the Gods, " wrote about the origins of human language: this unique, often ecstatic expression of consciousness that bursts forth as morsels of meaning encoded as vocal patterns.
Watson's ability to analyze the meaning and context of human language and quickly process information to piece together evidence for answers can help healthcare decision makers, such as clinicians, nurses and medical students, unlock important knowledge and facts buried within huge volumes of information.
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His abilities at arithmetic may have been flawed, but his understanding of human body language was remarkable.
"When you're dealing with human beings and language, there's no place to hide, " says Witmore.
European populations have mixed so extensively with their neighbours that their genes mirror geography, rather than reflecting the paths of human migrations or language families.
Generally posed in natural language, human-asked questions are search engine lightning rods for companies that produce content on the fly.
And it turns out that some of the regions where monkeys have mirror neurons correspond to areas of the human brain that handle language.
"The breakthrough UI defines a new language for human-device interaction that is built ground-up for eye-free operation, " said Boaz Zilberman, chief executive officer of Project RAY.
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Economists in the French Enlightenment (like Jacques Turgot) and the Scottish Enlightenment (like Adam Smith) recognized that essential human institutions such as language, culture, legal customs, mutual aid societies and markets develop spontaneously when governments get out of the way.
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EBay labs employs economists, machine learning and machine vision experts, data miners, natural language processors and human computer interaction specialists.
But they seem decidedly less cool next to gadgets that can read human movements and understand our spoken language.
For most of them, it was the first time they had heard their language spoken by another human being.
"Language is organic and we use human moderators to stay ahead of new trends, " he said.
One major hurdle is that the language of machine-plus-human interaction has not yet begun to be developed.
It is the timeless, universal language that ties us together as human kind.
He notes that part of why we are fascinated with body language is because it unlocks the human code to better understand not only what people are feeling but what they are intending .
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Quite which way is likely to produce what we all finally desire, a machine intelligence that we can query with natural language and get the answers based upon all of human knowledge, is as yet unknown.
By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.
The more human-translated documents that Google Translate can analyze in a specific language, the better the translation quality will be.
Based on this premise, it is hoped that this calloboration would further strengthen universal respect for justice, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, regardless of race, gender, language or religion.
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.
This heritage may exist in any language, in any part of the world, and in any area of human knowledge or expression.
Google said last week that its Google Translate service -- which changes text from one language to another -- handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
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