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Well it’s even more dismal in reality. Gather enough parrots on a stage and at least one can theoretically utter a series of seemingly meaningfuly word-like so
by MichaelZuo 2y ago
Well it’s even more dismal in reality.
Gather enough parrots on a stage and at least one can theoretically utter a series of seemingly meaningfuly word-like sounds that is legitimately novel, that has never been uttered before.
But I doubt any randomly picked HN user will actually accomplish that in fact before say age 40. Most people just don’t ever get enough meaningful speaking opportunities to make that statistically likely. There’s just too many tens of billions of people that have already existed and uttered words.
- anon373839 2y agoThat not reality, it’s theory.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoCan you write down the actual argument? It seems to be plausible, to me, given enough parrots.
- thfuran 2y agoNovel utterances happen all the damn time. See https://venturebeat.com/business/15-of-all-google-searches-are-unique-which-is-also-a-problem-for-chatbots/ https://venturebeat.com/business/15-of-all-google-searches-a... for tangential evidence. Edit: actually that looks like it's just an offhand mention of Google's initial report, but I don't really feel like spending more time tracking down details to rebut so silly a claim.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoUnique gibberish and spelling errors also count as a “unique search” so I don’t see how it relates. Do you have an argument that makes sense?
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- anon373839 2y agoThis is embarrassing, but I hastily misread your comment as saying something it didn’t say. So just disregard my comment altogether!