Joe Hildebrand, our CTO, recently wrapped up a column for the January edition of SIP Magazine. I won’t give away the article, but one element dealt with the fact that people and machines don’t speak the same language.

It reminded me of a trip to China not that long ago and the chuckles we got from some of the English translations on outdoor signs. We understood their meaning even as they lacked precision, and that is the point:

We knew they meant take caution around the riverbank. Conversely, a machine would have tried to gently dump itself into the river.

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