The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.
You won't remember what it was like when your technology didn't recognize when you are sad or angry.
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.
