Word: weisel
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...computer screen. But when a friend sings the lyrics of a Chinese pop song, the technology fails miserably. Apparently the slang didn't fit its preprogrammed language bank. It gets even stickier when computers try to talk back to humans. Most speech recognition devices are "idiot savants," says William Weisel, an industry analyst based in southern California. "They can make them very clever on very narrow subjects. It's not artificial intelligence but embedded intelligence." In other words, it will be a while before computers can chat as well as my brother - when he was three...
...followed by students who read short passages about the Holocaust, Israel and Judaism by renowned authors including Elie Weisel and Primo Levi...