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When I was little (5-7 years old) I had quite a few anime videos and magazines in italian sent to me by my parents who were abroad. Where I lived no one knew a
by spdionis 11y ago
When I was little (5-7 years old) I had quite a few anime videos and magazines in italian sent to me by my parents who were abroad. Where I lived no one knew a single word of italian.
I often watched and rewatched those videos and read those magazines without any other external input. I can tell you that doing that I easily learned the language.
When I was 8 years old I also left for Italy and in two weeks of time I already started speaking fluently, albeit with a few mistakes.
If the child will actually watch the Spanish TV he will learn the language.
EDIT: Even now I often learn new japanese words (and remember them) just by watching animes. The difference is that now I have english subtitles but back then I had no subtitles, only the images to help me understand the meaning.
- digikata 11y agoBut this is a little different, in the AI we want the ability to form syntactically correct sentences, but also some intelligence behind the sentences too. You as a human had another foundation of intelligence to lean on, your native language, and an understanding of the world outside of learning the Italian language. If you had no other human interaction, would you have learned any language? That's the more the situation of these AI algorithms.
- spdionis 11y agoI was only arguing that the child could actually learn Spanish, nothing more. Not knowing basically anything about AI state of the art what stops us from feeding a RNN image data and text data and make it correlate them automatically by context? Just like a child learns words by hearing them many times in similar contexts so could a RNN. I imagine the biggest problem is gathering and structuring the data. We humans receive lots of data and have lots of time to process it in our lives compared. And by lots I mean difference of a few orders of magnitude. It's amazing what this thing learns in just a few hours of processing.
- digikata 11y agoI agree the RNN performance is really amazing!