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Re:XPrize up for Artificial Intelligence that can give a TED... by francis88 on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:46AM (#7449466)
I respectfully disagree. As far as I understand, it is not about Q&A/jeopardy kind of context. It's about generating a TED speech that would involve deep domain expertise but more importantly tone and speech technics to make it great to hear...
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Re:XPrize up for Artificial Intelligence that can give a TED... by thefreeman on Saturday March 22, 2014 @11:56AM (#7449511)
What is preventing them from just playing back a pre recorded speech from a human?
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Re:XPrize up for Artificial Intelligence that can give a TED... by TophWells on Saturday March 22, 2014 @12:09PM (#7449582)
The topic isn't known in advance. The robot has to prepare a speech on a specified topic without human interaction.
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