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Re:Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans by jsprogrammer on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @06:30PM (#10503511)
>If a user asks A, you respond B.

A user may never ask A. Or, a user may only ask A once; in which case, did we really need to pre-compute the answer?

Re:Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans by imron on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:37PM (#10504016)
It's not pre-computing an answer, it's training a neural network that will be able to answer that and similar questions with minimal or no human interaction.

Whether that works out or not remains to be seen, but it's definitely worth investing research effort in to.

Re:Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans by dump100 on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:43PM (#10504042)
with 100s millions of user, each question will become a common question.
Re:Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans by jsprogrammer on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @01:09PM (#10508386)
Questions like: what, why, when, how? They are very common, but don't have definite answers.

The problem is, even with 100s of millions (or even billions), there are still an infinite number of questions that can be asked. Each of those questions can't be common.

Re:Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans by morganK on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @03:39AM (#10505277)