Computers are exceedingly powerful machines, capable of instantly completing a litany of tasks that would take humans infinitely longer to carry out. But as useful as they may be, computers are often infuriatingly unable to understand us. If you don’t carry out every function—even the most basic—exactly as a computer expects, you’ll get no response; it simply can’t interpret what you want. As robots become an ever-more-common part of our lives, it’s going to be increasingly important that they start to understand us.
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