Will computers ever truly understand what we're saying?

(University of California - Berkeley) If you think computers are quickly approaching true human communication, think again. Computers like Siri often get confused because they judge meaning by looking at a word's statistical regularity. This is unlike humans, for whom context is more important than the word or signal, according to UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Arjen Stolk. Stolk invented a communication game allowing only nonverbal cues, and used it to pinpoint regions of the brain where mutua