Ohayou, please i wanted to understand the exact meaning of this definition-
like sentence : "何か、機械とかに人間っぽいことをさせる、知能を持たせるみたいなまあ広い枠組みのことをAIと言って" And because
I found it difficult to really grasp the "のこと" part. Is it like "a thing of
wide frame" or "things about a wide frame". Arigatou
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meaning translation nuances dictionary ambiguity
the meaning of "のこと" in this sentence
It is literally "a thing about a broad framework like...".

The usage of の is "concerning", but you could treat のこと as a whole meaning
"about".

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The relevant definition is [the
following](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/%E3%81%AE/#je-58755):

> 12〔…に関する〕on; of; in
>
> 熱帯植物の本  
>  a book on tropical plants
>
> 児童心理学の権威  
>  an authority on child psychology
>
> 化学の先生  
>  a chemistry teacher
>
> 魚の研究  
>  a study of fish／research on fish
>
> 剣道の達人  
>  a fencing expert／an expert in fencing
>
> 歴史の試験  
>  a history examination／an examination in history
>
> 小さいころの話をしてください  
>  Please tell me about your childhood.
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> "何か、機械とかに人間っぽいことをさせる、知能を持たせるみたいなまあ広い枠組みのことをAIと言って"

I think the "のこと" here is _referring to/summing up_ everything that came
before it in that sentence as what constitutes/defines this thing called an
AI.

I would interpret the entire thing as

> "AI is this broad term that has to do with making machines human-like,
> giving them intelligence and things like that."

But something closer to "verbatim" would be like

> "Let's see, something like making machines human-like, giving them
> intelligence, well, it's a broad field, this thing called AI."

のこと doesn't really change the meaning of the sentence, and in this scenario,
it broadly functions like the phrase "this sort of thing" would in English.

I don't think there is really an "exact" translation here, and there often
isn't. A single Japanese phrase might even be more open to interpretation even
with full context because the language itself is heavily contextual. English
is linguistically a lot more precise and detail-driven, and this distinction
is what makes translation so hard sometimes, which is why we use the term
**localization** to go beyond translation toward contextualized interpretation
in order to generate meaning.

I think a good approach here (and always with Japanese, for me) is to try to
grasp the overall meaning first and then zoom in on the parts for the exercise
if you need to, but not immediately for meaning.
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