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Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by dekhn on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:06PM (#22174611)
i've thought of this many times. "Wikibot, tell me more about bridges of the 19th century." <blah blah summary> "Stop. Tell me more the Ponte delle Catene, Bagni di Lucca bridge" <blah blah details>
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Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by FabHK on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:59PM (#22175096)
Even simpler, I wanted my iPhone to read a wikipage out loud to me while I was walking home in the cold, and I was surprised that I couldn't figure it out - you can switch on the screen reader in accessibility, but it stopped reading after half a paragraph. Very annoying.
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Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything by sansnomme on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:24PM (#22174764)
Like most things in ML, the technological exists and theoretically works, but ymmv in production.
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