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Re:Build a better spell checker, win $10,000 by derefr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @08:11PM (#2014652)
A sufficiently-smart spell-checker would be indistinguishable from a translation aide, sentiment analyzer, voice-recognition classifier, etc. Basically, whatever tech is required to make spell-checkers better has other uses than spell-checking, and those might be valuable.
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Re:Build a better spell checker, win $10,000 by adrianN on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:07AM (#2015699)
A sufficiently-smart spell-checker would be indistinguishable from an artificial intelligence. A company producing one of those things would make billions, but not by selling a spell-checker.
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Re:Build a better spell checker, win $10,000 by derefr on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:09AM (#2015876)
I didn't mean it would be indistinguishable from all of those things (because it is an AGI and could act as any of those things if it wished), but rather that it would likely have to incorporate one or more of those things to spell better. I have a feeling sentiment analysis alone would be a pretty good next step for spelling/grammar-checking.
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