The problems associated with creating machines that could undertake these tasks are well illustrated by the story (possibly apocryphal but none the less salutary) of the early language translating...

The problems associated with creating machines that could undertake these tasks are well illustrated by the story (possibly apocryphal but none the less salutary) of the early language translating machine that was asked to translate the English sentence ‘The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak’, into Russian.