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I see the same thing in natural language processing. A lot of important details come from outside the four corners of the document. Ironically, I often find my
by mumblemumble 5y ago
I see the same thing in natural language processing. A lot of important details come from outside the four corners of the document.
Ironically, I often find myself in the unenviable position of being the machine learning person who's trying to convince people that machine learning is probably not a good fit for their problem. Or, worse, taking some more fuzzy-seeming position like, "Yes, we could solve this problem with machine learning, but it would actually cost more money than paying humans to do it by hand."
Part of why I hate hate hate the term "AI" is because you simply can't call something artificial intelligence and then expect them to understand that it's not actually useful for doing anything that requires any kind of intelligence.
- mcguire 5y agoThere's an old AI joke that all actual problems reduce to the artificial general intelligence problem---everything else, by definition, doesn't require intelligence.
- mumblemumble 5y agoThere's some truth to that. But I'd also argue that there's a tendency to try to bill every single kind of spinoff technology that the artificial intelligence community has produced as artificial intelligence. Which a bit like characterizing mixing up a glass of Tang as a kind of space exploration.
- 2sk21 5y agoYou are absolutely correct. In fact, most NLP software ignores the formatting of documents which conveys a lot of information as well. For example, section headings must be treated differently from the text that makes up the body of a section. Its very hard to even determine section headings and then its hard to take advantage of them since the big transformer models simply accept a stream of unspecialized tokens.
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