• @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    they don’t even handle full words, it’s just arbitrary groups of characters (including space and other stuff like apostrophe afaik) that is represented to the software as indexes on a list, it literally has no clue what language even is, it’s a glorified calculator that happens to work on words.

    • @SpacetimeMachine
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      17 months ago

      I mean, isn’t any program essentially a glorified calculator?

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        17 months ago

        not really, a basic calculator doesn’t tend to have variables and stuff like that

        i say it’s a glorified calculator because it’s just getting input in the form of numbers (again, it has no clue what a language or word is) and spitting back out some numbers that are then reconstructed into words, which is precisely how we use calculators.