Monday, March 28, 2005

Human Brain & Cognition

I had received this email on cognition capability of human brain many moons ago. Today I got it again and it still amazes me! I hope somewhere, someone is working on applying this discovery in research on artificial intelligence in computers. If we can have a digital model of how human brain can read and interpret this, I am sure it will take cognitive capabilities of a super-computer to un-precedented levels ! How? because we would have found a algorithm for making sense out of given gibberish. Many contemporary AI softwares rely on parsing vocabulary for natural languages, this algorithm may reduce the search involved!

"I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? "

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