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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by sctb on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:13PM (#14984344)
I think we don't need this off-topic flamebait here. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by icholy on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:09PM (#14983646)
Funny how someone without anything remotely technical in their comment history feels like they can speak for "the majority of tech people".
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by mLuby on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:31PM (#14983903)
ad hominem super sleuth
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by tdb7893 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:17PM (#14983736)
I don't see anything bad that he said. Also, I've met a decent amount of people who come across as very "bro" who are actually really nice considerate people so being kinda bro isn't inherently bad (unless you define "bro" as essentially just being an ahole, which doesn't seem to apply here)
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by mgbmtl on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:55PM (#14983506)
So.. I went reading the article, expecting something really ridiculously bro. The article was well written, good references, but yes, uses a few silly conversation samples (for which there were no sexist, racist or homophobic references).
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by prawn on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:25AM (#14986571)
Is it possible that training a bot to speak like that (silly/casual) is more challenging than to emulate a very grammatically correct and stiff style? As such, maybe the choice of conversations was intentional?
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by mgbmtl on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:48AM (#14986895)
My comment was directed towards the OP, who was harsh and didn't provide a proper argument. As I said, it was a nice article and I wanted to encourage others to read it, despite that (flagged) comment.
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by prawn on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:02AM (#14987265)
Yes, I was writing in support of your comment.
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by msla on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:17PM (#14983748)
Being bro is synonymous with being male to some people.

It is, of course, still an insult to them.

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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by mgbmtl on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:11PM (#14984334)
I see it more often used to mock a male mono-culture and the pitfalls that derive from it (ex: brogrammers). A bit like the term douchebag has become a synonym of 'jerk'.
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by sremani on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:54PM (#14985121)
The author is probably 20 years old (give or take) Undergrad student.

What is wrong with you people? Always have to put others in their "stereotypical silos" and stupid them they are the racists and homophobes ?!

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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by manav on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:02PM (#14986281)
Author seems to be into fantasy sports and must have a lot of group threads on that topic.
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by adeshpande on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:27AM (#14989945)
Yeah LOL i think maybe limiting the dataset to just 1:1 conversations would be better than including group chats as well
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Re:How I Used Deep Learning to Train a Chatbot to Talk Like Me by piptastic on Thursday August 10, 2017 @03:38PM (#14983316)
Ideally most of them won't care what other people think about them. That's not something to be spending much thinking power on anyway.

There's nothing wrong with making tech that can communicate to a larger audience than "people in tech".

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