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Not to be too cliche, but a sufficiently advanced AI would be able to solve this problem, because it would have the ability to recognize context as humans might
by betterunix2 8y ago
Not to be too cliche, but a sufficiently advanced AI would be able to solve this problem, because it would have the ability to recognize context as humans might. The more interesting question will be what such an AI would do with words that native speakers of a language do not agree on e.g. in English words like "crap" or "damn." I think the future problem will be AIs that are either too conservative or too liberal when it comes to censoring "mild" vulgarities (and then I will probably say, "a sufficiently advanced AI would adjust the censorship level by the audience to avoid that problem," etc.).
- Piskvorrr 8y agoYeah, that's not really useful though: "if magic, then problem solved" is pretty much the definition of handwaving.
- betterunix2 8y agoI am not sure it is "magic" so much as "still beyond the state of the art." I would be surprised if we never get to the point where AI can handle that kind of nuance, especially given how much progress has been made just in my lifetime. Maybe it will take longer than some expect, but it is not an impossibly hard task.