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Keep in mind this is essentially the same concept as the big scary AI from OpenAI that is making the news recently. They use neural nets, not markov chains, but
by xkapastel 8y ago
Keep in mind this is essentially the same concept as the big scary AI from OpenAI that is making the news recently. They use neural nets, not markov chains, but the idea is similar: given a word, predict the next word.
> It's surprising how easy this can be turned into something rather practically useful
Given the above, it's not so surprising: this word prediction problem is fundamental, with a wide range of applications.
- Sean1708 8y ago> Keep in mind this is essentially the same concept as the big scary AI from OpenAI that is making the news recently. They use neural nets, not markov chains, but the idea is similar: given a word, predict the next word. Isn't this kind of like saying that a plane is essentially the same concept as a car because they both transport people from A to B? "given a word, predict the next word" is the problem statement (i.e. what the problem is) but that's not very interesting, what's interesting is the solution (i.e. how you solve the problem). Markov Chains and the kind of Neural Nets used in the text generator that made the news are very different, even if they're attempting to solve the same problem.