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Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nell-like-lolcat-pew-pew dept.

bossanovalithium writes "Carnegie Mellon University has taught a computer how to read and learn from the internet. According to Dennis Baron at the Oxford University press blog, the computer is called NELL and it is reading the internet and learning from it in much the same way that humans learn language and acquire knowledge. Basically by soaking it all up and figuring it out. NELL is short for Never Ending Language Learner and apparently it is getting brainier every day."

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  1. The Diamond Age? by jea6 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nell was also the name of the protagonist in Neal Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_, a story which touches on the concept of artificial intelligence.

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