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I Tried to Teach a Computer "Apple" (It Thought It Was a Fruit, an iPhone, and a Vector)

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Hello, DEV Community! 🙌 It’s my first time writing here. As I was studying how models handle text today, I ran into a funny realization: computers don't understand human words at all. They only understand numbers. So how do we explain to a model that a cat is a pet, an apple can be a fruit or a te…

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  1. 2026-09-30 12:37 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I Tried to Teach a Computer "Apple" (It Thought It Was a Fruit, an iPhone, and a Vector)

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