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“Shakespeare is known in our house as the gentleman who pays the rent.”<br> | “Shakespeare is known in our house as the gentleman who pays the rent.”<br> | ||
:—Judy Dench}} | :—Judy Dench}} | ||
Shakespeare is quite a piece of work, as the bard put it.<ref>''Hamlet'', II, ii.</ref> | |||
SBF’s musings on the bard — Shakespeare, not Google’s AI — call to mind the difference between “discourse” as a bilateral, interactive thing, and as ''[[symbol processing]]'': where a machine consumes a bunch of symbols and executes a series of preset commands, without ''learning'' anything and without ''changing'' the nature of the text. | |||
====There is no machine for judging poetry==== | ====There is no machine for judging poetry==== |