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Very interesting. Now I want to listen to Q*bert and see what the random phonemes come up with. Uniformly random phonemes would occasionally "say naughty thing
by leereeves 4y ago
Very interesting. Now I want to listen to Q*bert and see what the random phonemes come up with.
Uniformly random phonemes would occasionally "say naughty things". But "Radio Shack"? That's 8 phonemes, and rather unlikely (1 in 44^8 if the chip supported all 44 English phonemes).
- detritus 4y agoSurely it would be that unlikely if the machine was located in a Radio Shack, otherwise it has entire dictionary and encyclopedias worth of phoneme jumbles to potentially arrive at?
- leereeves 4y agoTrue, there are a lot of meaningful 8 phoneme phrases. Maybe a million? Then the odds of hitting any of them would be about (10^6)/(44^8) or about one in fourteen million. But close matches like "Rahdio Shack", "Radio Shahck", "Adio Shack", etc for all those phrases might occur more often than one in a million.
- joezydeco 4y agoAll you need to hear is ay + oh + ack in that order, not necessarily together, and your brain will probably do the rest. We've spent decades explaining this to people that hear messages in records when played backwards and it still needs repeating.
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoMy iPhone acts like I said “hey Siri” sometimes when I just said something else with “ey” followed by “ee”. That's a machine of course, but I don't think humans are much better.
- thewebcount 4y agoYou don't even need to play them backwards! "Excuse me while I kiss this guy!"