Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything

Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by OmarShehata on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:00PM (#22174556)

This seems that a more complex approach, not simpler. To try to emulate a form of intelligence we don't understand and even worse, monitor its progress through some proxy interactions that don't tell us much.

Like if you're going to create a creature from scratch why create something that can't communicate with you?

Unless you mean we should just tackle simpler forms of intelligence in general, which is what the rest of the AI field outside of conversational AI are doing.

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Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by Aperocky on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:09PM (#22174650)

Basically your last sentence. You can't have an intelligent conversation with something that's fundamentally not intelligent. It could have recited the whole wikipedia but still be basically a query bot. Building more advanced query methods (e.g. use machine learning) doesn't solve that problem.

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