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> However, the next step seems to be simple: build a second AI which has the ability to understand facts, but doesn't need all the fancy language generation cap
by BaseballPhysics 4y ago
> However, the next step seems to be simple: build a second AI which has the ability to understand facts, but doesn't need all the fancy language generation capabilities.
I'm not convinced that will work, but let's say it could. First, you'd have to build that oracle and the problem is, as far as I'm aware, we don't know how to do that. That'd be one of those new techniques I was referring to.
- d1sxeyes 4y agoWell, I'm not sure about that. For pure facts, Google is able to answer pretty quickly. Search for 'population of Austria-Hungary in 1914', or 'shakespeare's birthday', or 'official languages of the Philippines', and Google can provide that data. Obviously, there's work to be done still, and I'd be wary of making Google that 'oracle', but the development there would seem to be incremental (teach it more facts), rather than creating some other completely new concept.
- BaseballPhysics 4y agoI genuinely don't agree. Google can handle basic facts like that, sure, but there's a wide range of factual queries where Google is unable to provide direct answers like that because that's actually quite hard in the general case. After all, if it were easy, they'd already be doing it. But hey, I guess we'll see!