Yeah, it's a bit of a nitpick over definition of "comprehension" but the program itself is obviously useful, I mean it's a poor man's version of Freebase. Freebase/Google Knowledge Graph doesn't claim to "comprehend" anything, it is just a large graph datastructure with an efficient querying mechanism. That's what this is (...given this is a poor man's version, efficient querying mechanism may be lacking for larger graphs)
We don't have to worry about the philosophical questions of comprehension to find cases like this present challenges. These types of example (better articulated in mrec's link) are cases where we can imagine straightforward, plausible queries that the computer would be unable to answer: "what shattered?" or "what remains?" Some of the examples are such that simple web searches wouldn't be helpful in resolving the ambiguity; you'd need some "common knowledge." (Again: not that that's an insurmountable or necessarily relevant problem.)
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Yeah, it's a bit of a nitpick over definition of "comprehension" but the program itself is obviously useful, I mean it's a poor man's version of Freebase. Freebase/Google Knowledge Graph doesn't claim to "comprehend" anything, it is just a large graph datastructure with an efficient querying mechanism. That's what this is (...given this is a poor man's version, efficient querying mechanism may be lacking for larger graphs)
We don't have to worry about the philosophical questions of comprehension to find cases like this present challenges. These types of example (better articulated in mrec's link) are cases where we can imagine straightforward, plausible queries that the computer would be unable to answer: "what shattered?" or "what remains?" Some of the examples are such that simple web searches wouldn't be helpful in resolving the ambiguity; you'd need some "common knowledge." (Again: not that that's an insurmountable or necessarily relevant problem.)