Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:46PM
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You don't even have to trick it with slang. Maybe I am behind but so far I have never seen a bot that can consistently or even most of the time understand context. They seem to all seriously struggle with anything more than a random sentence that was determined a probable result of the last message the user sent.
Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
by rland on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:40AM
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Well, often times human beings miss metaphors, slang, and topical references, especially if they are speaking in another cultural group.
The gulf between even the most disparate human tribes is nothing compared to the gulf between an AI chat-bot and a human being.
I think it's entirely possible to make bots with simple models of the world. (Not that this is really a move any closer to that)
Re:Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
by andbberger on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:22PM
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Kind of an open problem on how to make a generative model which is sufficiently powerful :)
But that is basically what humans do - we don't run internal simulations, we have a model we've trained over a lifetime of experiences with the world that judges the likelihood of a given scenario
There's things like metaphors, slang, topical references, all things that end up in conversations that change regularly in their meaning and usage. Then there's the unspoken parts of conversations. The implications behind different wordings, ways of writing things, words left unsaid, sarcasm, tone(even in text tone is conveyed in some form).
Humans do all these things while conversing almost subconsciously, each individual person does these things and comprehends these things uniquely based on years and years of sensory input and model building from a huge variety of sources, in a way that's individually unique and poorly understood. How would you even begin to train a model to even a remote semblance of that?