Generating code from natural language is closer than you think

Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by jarpadat on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @11:15PM (#1912883)

> Where is the red circle drawn? How large is it? What shade of red? How are those arbitrary values chosen, and how do I choose others?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=draw+a+red+circle

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Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by hasenj on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:23AM (#1913293)

I was expecting it to be filled with red, not just have a very thin red border.

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Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by ludwig on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @04:09AM (#1913559)

You're thinking of a disk: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=draw+a+red+disk

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Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by jared314 on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @06:59AM (#1913921)

That is a good example of how people are not precise enough with their natural language to be computationally useful.

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Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by ewjordan on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:34AM (#1913317)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=draw+a+red+filled+circl...

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Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by kemayo on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @04:08AM (#1913554)

It's still a bit iffy.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=draw+a+green+filled+red...

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Re:Generating code from natural language is closer than you ... by silentbicycle on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @11:38PM (#1912938)

And yet, "draw a red enso"* just gives me a circle.

* http://images.google.com/images?q=enso

(The results for "bring me some delicious pho" are similarly unsatisfactory - it just tells me that delicious means "greatly pleasing or entertaining". Not news to me, pal!)

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