Re:25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to m...
by dheera on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:51PM
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Absolutely, but you could start with reasonable assumptions and refine from there. Just the percentage of individual humans wearing a mask. Recent = past week. Start somewhere. Give me an answer first, or ASK for clarification instead of "Sorry, I couldn't understand your query."
I understand it's a hard problem, but with current software capabilities and given Google's compute infrastructure I honestly think some of these things are well within the realm of what a team of several hundred Google engineers can do.
I'm not asking it to write Shakespeare, I'm asking it to crunch data with a sentence that could reasonably easily be parsed into a graph and be turned into a MapReduce query. I thought they were good at that stuff.
Context? I know it's hard, but I thought Google has been working on that. I'm very much adjusting my expectations to what I think Google should be able to accomplish in a decade. I expect some basic context capability now, at the very least these data-crunching type use cases.
I understand it's a hard problem, but with current software capabilities and given Google's compute infrastructure I honestly think some of these things are well within the realm of what a team of several hundred Google engineers can do.
I'm not asking it to write Shakespeare, I'm asking it to crunch data with a sentence that could reasonably easily be parsed into a graph and be turned into a MapReduce query. I thought they were good at that stuff.
Context? I know it's hard, but I thought Google has been working on that. I'm very much adjusting my expectations to what I think Google should be able to accomplish in a decade. I expect some basic context capability now, at the very least these data-crunching type use cases.