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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by QuinnWilton on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:47PM (#21351685)
It sounds like you're talking about garden-path sentences [0], and in particular: "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" [1]. These are sentences whose structure tricks the reader into making an incorrect parse. My favourite of these has always been: "The horse raced past the barn fell".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_frui...

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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by lsb on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:43AM (#21352210)
I've always enjoyed the multiple valid parses of "Time flies like an arrow". I can't wait for AI to generate more Escher sentences like "More people have been to Russia than I have" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_illusion )
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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by Doxin on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:33AM (#21352718)
You know, I only just now got the second interpretation of that sentence. I always thought of it like "Time flies like an arrow (straight and in one direction), Fruit flies like a banana (when thrown)"

Obvious in hindsight...

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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by kees99 on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:47AM (#21353048)
Same here, except it's comparing fly's flight trajectory to that of a banana is new to me.
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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by saalweachter on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:02AM (#21355013)
"The horse raced past the barn fell, which has been haunted since all those teenagers were murdered there."

(Noun-adjective is a rare formation, but amusingly more common in the same situations where the author uses rare and archaic definitions like the adjective "fell".)

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