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Subject:Be afraid was (Grammar Checkers) From:Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 12 Sep 1996 07:28:57 -0700
Lisa Higgins said
>Machines do not now and probably never will be able to accurately
>replicate natural language.
>Software CANNOT equal human in terms of linguistic skills, and machines
>cannot replace technical writers any more than Eliza replaced
>psychiatrists.
Sadly, the question is not whether machines/software can effectively replace
us but whether the powers that be *think* they can.
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