The Daily Dose

Language is tricky. It’s full of nuance and layers, and regional and dialectal variations that complicate things even further. For example, if I was to describe something as “sick”, do I mean that it’s disgusting, impressive, or quite literally unwell? Again, there’s the word “cool”. Is it a positive adjective, or a statement of temperature? Computers really struggle to understand this. Sure, you can train an AI to identify spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. It’s relatively trivial to build a bot whose job is solely to identify the use of passive voice. But when it comes to actually understanding the language used,…

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