From: Tristan.Miller@dfki.de   
      
   Greetings.   
      
   In article <3ffb95c2$1@news.unimelb.edu.au>, Gil Megidish wrote:   
   >     I was wondering about the progress of AI. Simply put, why dont we   
   > see machines reading books, watching movies and giving their OPINION?   
      
   Exactly what kind of opinion are you talking about?  Can you define the term   
   more precisely?  I'm sure it's well within the ability of current NLP   
   systems to read a text and then make some sort of comment on it; whether or   
   not the information they provide can be seen as an opinion depends on how   
   you define the term.  As for why you don't see machines giving their   
   opinions on movies, I'd say this is largely because the state of the art in   
   image recognition simply isn't yet at the point where computers can   
   recognize arbitrary objects performing arbitrary actions.  If the computer   
   was given a verbal description of the scene and dialogue I'm sure it would   
   fare much better.   
      
   Regards,   
   Tristan   
      
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