Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.
Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it.
In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
No, I consider myself computer illiterate.
Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.
You can and must understand computers now.
People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.
I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
