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It's entertaining, but the thing that struck me most after reading that "conversation" is how far we still have to go in AI. That can also be taken as good new
by sendos 15y ago
It's entertaining, but the thing that struck me most after reading that "conversation" is how far we still have to go in AI.
That can also be taken as good news, ie there is still a lot to be done/discovered in this interesting and very difficult field.
- user24 15y agoI did a report during my undergrad (2005) on AI chatterbots and compared various bots; they all had huge distances to go before approaching any kind of real conversation. During my masters (2009) I studied computational linguistics and found that the gap was even wider than I'd previously thought. Even generating a natural sounding 2 sentence exchange is very difficult, let alone a lengthy conversation, and as far as anything approaching genuine understanding and insight? We don't even know where to begin yet.
- kleiba 15y agoYeah, but then again, it takes the human brain about 15-20 years before you can have a somewhat reasonable conversation with its owner, and that's dedicated hardware custom-built for that purpose.
- ars 15y agoI guess you don't interact much with kids. 3 year olds will give great conversation and sometimes very interesting insights.