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This is why I think Google recently saying 95% word accuracy is just as good as a human is wrong. If I ask if you after dinner if you "Want to get a pizza cake"

This is why I think Google recently saying 95% word accuracy is just as good as a human is wrong. If I ask if you after dinner if you "Want to get a pizza cake", you'll probably quickly realize I mean "piece of cake". Mistakes like that in 1/20 words is a lot. Google is the best of all the big players at figuring out this context (I once asked it what a Dead Left Shrimp was, apparently I was mishearing the name of basketball player Detlef Schrempf), but it will still search for "Pizza Cake" rather than correcting it.

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MereInterest 9y ago
Not only that, but even if you were to get 100% word accuracy, context is still important for choosing between multiple possible meanings. As an example, I was being directed by Google Maps to a new place, and I asked it "What is the ETA?" It responded, "From Wikipedia, the estimated time of arrival or ETA is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place." It was a completely valid answer to the question, but not one that any human would give.
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y ago
  I think you give humans too much credit. If it were so, this joke[0] wouldn't be funny. s/Microsoft/Google/g s/Seattle/Mountain View/g [0] http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-joke.html http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-jo...
- averagewall 9y ago
  Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they knew what the concept meant. Having a "the" in there like you did should remove ambiguity though. I guess Google Maps defers to Wikipedia when it doesn't know what a term means.
Swizec 9y ago
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MereInterest 9y ago

Not only that, but even if you were to get 100% word accuracy, context is still important for choosing between multiple possible meanings. As an example, I was being directed by Google Maps to a new place, and I asked it "What is the ETA?" It responded, "From Wikipedia, the estimated time of arrival or ETA is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place." It was a completely valid answer to the question, but not one that any human would give.

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y ago
I think you give humans too much credit. If it were so, this joke[0] wouldn't be funny. s/Microsoft/Google/g s/Seattle/Mountain View/g [0] http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-joke.html http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-jo...
averagewall 9y ago
Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they knew what the concept meant. Having a "the" in there like you did should remove ambiguity though. I guess Google Maps defers to Wikipedia when it doesn't know what a term means.

Swizec 9y ago

Have you ever considered that pizza cake is delicious? I don’t know about you, but I wanna try this: https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9 https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9