Teaching computers to read is the next grand goal for AI research

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It is a skill that a bright four-year old can acquire without excessive difficulty, but it is almost impossible for machines: reading a sentence or paragraph and extracting its information content. Researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency are trying to build a computerized machine that can learn by reading. Although artificial intelligence has made strides in recent years, reading remains a very difficult hurdle because of the complex ambiguity of natural language.

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