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As George Carlin pointed out[1], it's the context of the use of language that determines whether it's good or bad. So machine learning just sucks at determining
by peterwwillis 8y ago
As George Carlin pointed out[1], it's the context of the use of language that determines whether it's good or bad. So machine learning just sucks at determining context. Trying to get people to stop being offended by the utterance of arbitrary sounds probably will never happen, but at least we can make computers less stupid.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvdXxhLPa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvdXxhLPa8 (trigger warning: comedy)
- Fezzik 8y agoThis sparked a memory of sprinter Tyson Gay’s last name being automatically edited[0] to be “less offensive”(?) by a religious org’s news website. Simply searching for and replacing certain words is bound to fail. [0] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=294 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=294
- ThrustVectoring 8y agoContext can change, which can make things super awkward. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/9a0wuc/my_name_is_ligma_and_this_is_my_story/ https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/9a0wuc/my_name_is_...