Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

So much technology, so little talent.

If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.