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No. Machine transcription requires strong AI to be really good. As you saw in my example with the Kelis song, it isn't enough to just transcribe the input sylla
by geon 14y ago
No. Machine transcription requires strong AI to be really good. As you saw in my example with the Kelis song, it isn't enough to just transcribe the input syllable by syllable. You need the software to be able to "understand" that I'm requesting a song, and that "play a capella" makes no sense, and adjust the transcription to tale into account that the artist Kelis has a song with the name "Acapella".
There are thousands of cases like this, where natural language is amibigous, but a human has no trouble understanding the intention.
Siri has tons of databases avsilable and knows my taste in music. It should do a better job than a human understanding what song i want.
- seiji 14y agoExcellent point. Perhaps I should have specified "current-level, mostly-non-situationally-contextual machine transcription." Once tone, intent, situation, and context are taken into account we get closer to actual communication instead of "listen to some discrete phonemes then try to assemble appropriate words based on parts of speech."
- geon 14y agoWell. The definition of AI, should not be the sophistication or success, but the intention. A chess AI is little more than a recursive search for a maximum return, or a database search. There is not really anything distinguishing it from any other algorithm. Just the intention of the developer.