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摘要

Jaime Carbonell, chief science officer of Meaningful Machines, hunches over his laptop in the company's midtown Manhattan offices, waiting for it to decode a message from the perpetrators of a grisly terrorist attack. Running software that took four years and millions of dollars to develop, Carbonell's machine -or rather, the server farm it's connected to a few miles away - is attempting a task that has bedeviled computer scientists for half a century. The message isn't encrypted or scrambled or hidden among thousands of documents. It's simply written in Spanish: "Declaramos nuestra responsabilidad de lo que ha ocurrido en Madrid, justo dos anos y medio despues de los atentados de Nueva York y Washington"