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I'd be happy if my phone's autocorrect feature would actually produce sentences with proper spelling and reasonable grammar. Apparently that's still too hard fo

I'd be happy if my phone's autocorrect feature would actually produce sentences with proper spelling and reasonable grammar. Apparently that's still too hard for our mighty machine learning systems. I'm not going to merge with any technology that is worse than my stupid mush brain. [edit - why am I still editing the spelling and grammar on this post?]

adventured 9y ago
It's just a matter of doing things in a proper order. World conquering super intelligent AI first, then really high quality auto-correct. It's actually what our AI God will spend all of its time on, correcting spelling & grammar for 13 billion people sending trillions of increasingly poorly formed messages.
- wj 9y ago
  See the book Avagado Corp.
ilaksh 9y ago
Just because that good autocorrect AI or AGI isn't available today doesn't mean that we should dismiss it as something that we don't need to worry about. Because the change to our way of living is so great, we should start making plans, even if it is 10 or 30 years out. Personally I believe we will see really interesting animal-like AGI demos in 2018 and 2019. It's just dumb that people can't take this stuff seriously until all of the engineering and research is 100% done.
- chadgeidel 9y ago
  I'm not dismissing it. On the contrary, I can't wait for brain-machine interfaces. I can't wait for really good self-driving cars. I'm just not as optimistic as many of my colleagues.
  - dboreham 9y ago
    I'm waiting for self driving lawyers. And lawn mowers.
    - letlambda 9y ago
      My lawyer can drive himself, but it only works with BMWs.
flukus 9y ago
Can we aim lower? I'd settle for one that auto corrected "the" and "they" whenever I (frequently) get it wrong. After that I'd like one that could sort out the "there", "their" and "they're" thing for me.
- chadgeidel 9y ago
  I'd settle for not remembering a word I type incorrectly on a tiny screen all the time (without a prompt). No "yiu" isn't a word, stop suggesting it.

adventured 9y ago

It's just a matter of doing things in a proper order. World conquering super intelligent AI first, then really high quality auto-correct. It's actually what our AI God will spend all of its time on, correcting spelling & grammar for 13 billion people sending trillions of increasingly poorly formed messages.

wj 9y ago
See the book Avagado Corp.

ilaksh 9y ago

Just because that good autocorrect AI or AGI isn't available today doesn't mean that we should dismiss it as something that we don't need to worry about. Because the change to our way of living is so great, we should start making plans, even if it is 10 or 30 years out. Personally I believe we will see really interesting animal-like AGI demos in 2018 and 2019. It's just dumb that people can't take this stuff seriously until all of the engineering and research is 100% done.

chadgeidel 9y ago
I'm not dismissing it. On the contrary, I can't wait for brain-machine interfaces. I can't wait for really good self-driving cars. I'm just not as optimistic as many of my colleagues.
- dboreham 9y ago
  I'm waiting for self driving lawyers. And lawn mowers.
  - letlambda 9y ago
    My lawyer can drive himself, but it only works with BMWs.

flukus 9y ago

Can we aim lower? I'd settle for one that auto corrected "the" and "they" whenever I (frequently) get it wrong. After that I'd like one that could sort out the "there", "their" and "they're" thing for me.

chadgeidel 9y ago
I'd settle for not remembering a word I type incorrectly on a tiny screen all the time (without a prompt). No "yiu" isn't a word, stop suggesting it.