> This sort of text generation is like a magician's trick where he appears to saw the woman in half and put her together again.
That's a really good analogy!
Re:Machine-generated husband chatter
by sharanvkaur on Monday April 24, 2017 @11:38PM
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yep, this is so true. i was really excited about the tiny fragments that seemed to hold meaning, but they were obviously just happy accidents.
To generate output that contained meaning that you could actually engage with, you'd have to first generate the meaning and then turn that into text. That's a fundamentally different process to what is going on here. This is also why 'Turing Test' competitions involving chat bots are never going to give us artificial intelligence.
This sort of text generation is like a magician's trick where he appears to saw the woman in half and put her together again. I don't care how good the magician is at the trick, he's not going to be any help at all to a surgeon that's actually cutting someone in half and then stitching them back together again.