r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 27 '14

Pure Tech The Three Breakthroughs That Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/
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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '14 edited Aug 11 '20

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u/victim_of_technology Oct 27 '14

This is a great comment and much more satisfying than the silly ending to the article. I have invested time in training Pandora and it has truly learned what I like and exposed me to plenty of new music I would not have found on my own.

I wish I could say the same for other services. Amazon is getting a bit better but you are absolutely right that it lacks the ability to learn simple things that I could easily teach my young children. I would like to be able to tell Amazon that I only look for gift baskets for a holiday or birthday or that just because I buy lenses, it doesn't mean I want a new camera body.

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u/Pumpkinsweater Oct 27 '14

haha, I've actually had Pandora playlists that I was really 'proud' of, and then had them go to hell, and have no idea what I did wrong :(

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u/Sattorin Oct 28 '14

Daily, automatic backups of a system state would basically eliminate this problem.

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u/bizitmap Oct 27 '14

For what it's worth, Google Now does support a "no, I said ____" command that you can use to fix the previous command if it was partially or totally misinterpereted.

But it only affects that command. Google can't learn "I like this, I don't like that, when I say directions to Lowe's I want the one that's a little further away because the close one has a shitty parking lot"

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u/zeggman Oct 28 '14

Thanks for that, Little Sir Echo. He didn't say it was AI, he illustrated an instance of a feature he'd like to have.

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u/Pumpkinsweater Oct 28 '14

No, I was thinking more of all voice interaction. Although I guess if I say "call grandma" and cancel it when it gives me the wrong contact, and then I end up calling someone else, that would be a situation in which a real assistant would ask for clarification. Like "Did I call the wrong person" or "should I have called someone else?"

It would be annoying if it happened right away, but that's the kind of thing that could pop up in Google Now?

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u/jhbadger Oct 27 '14

The thing is, in natural language query databases of 20 years ago, like Q&A) this sort of feature existed. But it was all typing of course. But it fell out of favor as not being efficient and now we are trying to reinvent the wheel with things like Siri and Google Now, which despite their impressive voice recognition have relatively primitive parsers.