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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}}
SBF’s insightful<ref>Insightful in that they offer insight into the surprising limitations of this supposedly outstanding intellect.</ref> musings on the bard call to mind the difference between the [[data modernists]] and the rest of us: the difference between regarding “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.
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====