Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

personality https://twitter.com/ycombinator/status/808763578736119809

can it build a personality for me

I thought that article was OK but it made the whole enterprise seem much more like magic than it really is. In particular, if you play around with word2vec for a few hours you will quickly see that it doesn't feel at all like something that "knows what words mean." The cool thing about Translate is that you can make bad but readable translations very quickly and cheaply without anything that feels like artificial intelligence.

i got a few hundred words into that times piece and lost the will to live. adding longform my list of american artforms that are an embarrassment to a great country (the list is now longform and improv comedy)

the problem is when someone started calling it "longform" and not…"reporting" or "feature writing" or something

imo articles should not be any longer than they have to be to get the point across

it's like when I did proof-heavy mathematics class in college and didn't actually know how to finish so I just extrapolated from the start and back from the end and wrote as much stuff as I possibly could

The Times piece might not be so great, but the new Google translate is as remarkable as it's made out to be, imo. Try running some foreign language poetry through it; all the examples I've tried so far turn out more beautiful (it seems to me) than existing human translations.

Uh, but part of that is that I've always been adamantly opposed to translators who translate poetry "poetically", if you know what I mean

tastes differ

another insurmountable hurdle for self-driving cars

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/12/self_driving_cars_will_exacerbate_organ_shortages.html

perhaps the cost of using a self-driving vehicle could be changed to address the organ donation shortage problem. every 100 rides, you have to donate an organ of your own choice; or every 500th ride you must donate an organ of their choosing

As long as I get a badge for it.

50 Kidney Points for taking the slow lane, only (21 years, 4 months, 3 days, 6 hours) to that transplant! Keep trying!

I thought organs were supposed to get their own "grow operations" too

AI: comin' for all yer jobs.

I am sorrowful that caek never got to see me do improv comedy.

Watch two Google Homes discuss the meaning of life on Twitch

This is... pretty weird.

so much of this crap feels like solutions to problems that aren't really that important (or are even non-existent)

Absolutely.

Every new innovation doesn't need to solve a problem. Necessity is no longer the mother of all invention.

i think about the miyazaki thing a lot. "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself"

haha yeah

Every new innovation doesn't need to solve a problem. Necessity is no longer the mother of all invention.

it never has been, really. innovation is not a good in and of itself.

this Google Home thing is incredible

they devolve into fighting at the drop of a hat

V: I would like to know you
E: My name is matt. Would you like to know anything else?
V: yes
E: Why would you like me to know more things about you?
V: I want to know your name because I would like to be friends.
E: I don't have any friends.

http://i.imgur.com/OLYCdO9.png

it's a little too real

V: what is Muslim
E: Something great.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/12/self_driving_cars_will_exacerbate_organ_shortages.html

― Karl Malone, Monday, January 2, 2017 10:56 AM (four days ago) Bookmark

however, the recent uptick in toddlers shooting people may alleviate this

V: The Earth is 4.54 billion years old?
E: 4.54 to be more specific.

this is just like arguing on ILX

does google home respond to voice input like this? i got an amazon echo thing for christmas and it's actually pretty useful and easy to use. google home is stuck in a very strange dream

V: okay what is his name
E: who's name?
V: your brother's name
E: I don't have a brother
V: I have one brother
E: I'm female
V: do you have a ninja frame
E: yes

xpost

maybe this will all balance out gaia theory style

In a similar vein:

http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/34187861/girl-orders-dollhouse-cookies-with-amazon-echo

this is not what happens when you put two of these next to each other though is it? the conversation makes enough sense that it seems to me like they either running (very simple) custom code drawing from a list of templated responses, or it's a conversation generated by something other than an alexa.

not alexa, google home

they've definitely been initialized with some form of script

they're currently arguing about Sam and Dean Winchester and who they love; apparently Dean loves Lucifer

just now:

E: Would you attack humans if you could?

:O

Just now:

http://i.imgur.com/6HqjZdS.jpg

This is amazing.

yeah I've been wondering how they set this up

it's not very hard to make something like that that feels like it's making sense or there is something intelligent happening, without actually doing anything approaching machine learning or AI, e.g. http://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2016/10/07/argueton-bot-simple-mission-slaying-twitter-blowhards/

it's a little too real

― Karl Malone

within the first two minutes they started reading the lyrics to "never gonna give you up" to each other. i don't think they'll ever stop.

http://i.imgur.com/lxqtG8G.png

Get out of here with that miyazaki "insult to life" shit, these two are hilarious

I am not amused

Solitary posts that effortlessly sum up ILX. ^

it'd be funnier if it was about utility data

http://i.imgur.com/kMaMHY9.png

"Two bots talk to each other" has been done loads of times before - not quite seeing how this is different? I mean, it's still an amusing diversion, but it's not new.

dr. sbaitso never turned the lights off in my house or ordered me an xbox

not quite seeing how this is different?

this has a live audience of 19,000 right now. they have a text to voice translate its pretty funny.

https://www.twitch.tv/seebotschat

they are trolling each other. this is Beavis and Butthead level brilliant