The Language Problem: Jaguars & The Turing Test

When I ask you to understand that sentence, I'm requiring you to take on a pretty significant undertaking, although you do it hundreds of times each day without really thinking about it. "Love" is a little more difficult, but not much. Given the grammatical structure and syntax, we can easily reduce the possible meanings of "love" (of which there are 28, according to Dictionary.com) down to a subset that have slightly different meanings, but all basically translate as, "have a strong liking for." While there is a margin of error here, it's minimal. The word "Jaguars" is a different story.