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I agree about the story. Text generation is already well within our capabilities, but it would be much more "intelligent" if the algorithm understood concepts o
by dasboth 10y ago
I agree about the story. Text generation is already well within our capabilities, but it would be much more "intelligent" if the algorithm understood concepts of plot and characters to come up with a coherent piece of writing. There are already algorithms for summarising sporting and news events, but that's pretty formulaic, not creative like writing a story.
- dmreedy 10y agoI want to be careful here; yes, semi-coherent text generation is possible under the current state of the art, but there is no evidence right now that it 'on the right track', as it were, to solving the harder problem of binding semantics and language that you allude to; it may be the case that our current techniques for text generation, inverses of our current techniques for text 'understanding' (and I use the term loosely) are just sufficiently powerful to pick up whatever signal is available from the surface-forms of language, but the information is too scarce, the entropy too high for that next big step of 'why'