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10:13 | 11-01-2013 | AI, Culturology | No Comments

вот уж, право, многие знания умножают печали:

IBM’s super-computer Watson briefly went from “smart” to “smart ass” with the help of the Urban Dictionary.

According to Eric Brown, an IBM research assistant and the “brains” behind Watson, he and his 35-person team wanted to get IBM’s supercomputer to sound more like a real human. <...> [And] what better way to learn the intricacies of informal human communication and conversation than having Watson memorize the Urban Dictionary[1]?

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What could’ve been another landmark for Watson — being able to participate and enjoy in a full conversation using natural, informal human language — turned out to be a step in the wrong direction.

Watson may have learned the Urban Dictionary, but it never learned the all-important axiom, “There’s a time and a place for everything.” Watson simply couldn’t distinguish polite discourse from profanity.

с другой стороны, так все и есть, любые рамки — это лишь досадная помеха, увы.


  1. там же немного об эволюции:

    The Urban Dictionary defines itself as “a place formerly used to find out about slang, and now a place that teens with no life use as a burn book to whine about celebrities, their friends, etc., let out their sexual frustrations, show off their racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-(insert religion here) opinions, troll, and babble about things they know nothing about.”

    не знаю, в самом деле, как оно сейчас, но раньше это был чудесный антропологический источник.  ↩

  

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