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A classic example is the instant answer to "who invented running?"
by 1f60c 6y ago
A classic example is the instant answer to "who invented running?"
- monkeybutton 6y agoWhat I find entertaining is that while answers may be wrong, you can see from the question statement and the returned sample text that it is working perfectly in a mechanical sense. The parsing of the question is correct, the searching works, and so does the ranking. But at the end of the day, it is just applied NLP at a large scale, not AGI, so it doesn't know that it is returning a wrong answer. It doesn't know anything at all!
- screaminghawk 6y agoFor those that are curious it displays a Quora answer that states: >Thomas Running >Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice at the same time. It's actually quite and interesting post if you follow the link. Obviously it's not correct in the purest form but there is justification for this answer.
- notahacker 6y agoOn the other hand "who discovered running?" quotes a tweet telling a variant of the same joke. I wonder if GPT-3 has learned about Mr Running yet?
- joshspankit 6y agoAt what point do the layers of abstraction and sarcasm become indistinguishable from truth? I don’t know, but I feel like our societal perfect storm + AI + time will get us there.