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That's a blatant lie. In light of the recent monopoly hearings in the Senate, Mr. Schmidt is clearly trying to persuade Senators that Google is weak and vulner
by orijing 15y ago
That's a blatant lie.
In light of the recent monopoly hearings in the Senate, Mr. Schmidt is clearly trying to persuade Senators that Google is weak and vulnerable. But Google published findings that show that in natural language processing, it's really the quantity [1] that determines quality. Note in particular the discussion of "stupid backoff" (a smoothing/interpolation technique), which relies on the raw quantity of data. Who has a copy of the Internet's treasure-trove of text in its data centers?
Ultimately, NLP is something that's Google's to win if it truly desired. I'm not sure what powers Siri directly, but large data is Google's answer, and it's much more effective than Mr. Schmidt would make you believe.
[1] Large Language Models in Machine Translation: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/D/D07/D07-1090.pdf http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/D/D07/D07-1090.pdf
- jerrya 15y agoI find it interesting that at this moment, your comment seems to be the most highly rated one, whereas my post,(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201862 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201862) which makes much the same point using a famous literary metaphor, is currently at -2 :)
- artursapek 15y agoHe made the point a lot better than you did :)
- CamperBob 15y agoKeep in mind that Song of the South was consigned to the memory hole by Disney at least 20 years ago, if not more. I'd be surprised if anyone under 30 even gets that reference, or sees how it might describe Google's attitude.
- pohl 15y agoIt would be nice if the Uncle Remus cycle of stories only existed in that movie and could be so easily removed from cultural circulation.