Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by bcaulfield » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC

Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm
blogs.nvidia.com

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by woliveirajr » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 9:52 PM UTC

> So now, computers can be as sarcastic as the rest of us. That sounds just great.

I love how sarcasm has so many subtle ways to be use to break tensions in some meetings, and how it can quickly derail any light conversation into some almost-nuclear mood.

But computers generating sarcasm, well... that will put a whole new level to automatic chat bots.

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by ateesdalejr » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 9:52 PM UTC

Yes! I need alexa to be sarcastic.

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by civilian » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 9:55 PM UTC

Sarcasm is a great tool. But there are a couple of people I know who never turn off their "Sarcastic tone", and it becomes impossible to tell what's genuine and what's bullshit. I try to tell them that their noise-to-signal ratio is bad, but they um... react defensively.

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by sbarre » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 9:58 PM UTC

> “We found lots of tweets, especially in politics, to be sarcastic,” he said, in what may be the biggest understatement so far of 2018.

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by notahacker » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:00 PM UTC

civilian wrote: post #4

Sarcasm is a great tool. But there are a couple of people I know who never turn off their "Sarcastic tone", and it becomes impossible to tell what's genuine and what's bullshit. I try to tell them that their noise-to-signal ratio is bad, but they um... react defensively.

in Britain we mostly do the sarcasm without any change in tone...

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by alexmat » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:05 PM UTC

civilian wrote: post #4

Sarcasm is a great tool. But there are a couple of people I know who never turn off their "Sarcastic tone", and it becomes impossible to tell what's genuine and what's bullshit. I try to tell them that their noise-to-signal ratio is bad, but they um... react defensively.

Maybe they have a speech impediment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziH9St7ajuw

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by Stratoscope » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:11 PM UTC

Like a human being could ever read that text.

If you're having as much trouble reading it as I was, open the developer tools and on the body style, remove "DINPro" from the font-family, turn off the font-weight: 300 or change it to 400, and increase the font-size to 16px or whatever size you like.

If the AIs ever do take over, my one request is that they use plenty of sarcasm when they talk about designers who think unreadable text with substandard font-weight is a good thing.

Of course, being AIs, maybe they could care less.

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by jboggan » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:29 PM UTC

Last year we were working on a rubber ducky debugging chatbot and relying a bit too heavily on StackOverflow data for conversational training data. It frequently gave sarcastic answers, especially if you asked for help concerning regular expressions.

Re: Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm

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Post by freeflight » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:34 PM UTC

civilian wrote: post #4

Sarcasm is a great tool. But there are a couple of people I know who never turn off their "Sarcastic tone", and it becomes impossible to tell what's genuine and what's bullshit. I try to tell them that their noise-to-signal ratio is bad, but they um... react defensively.

It can be a coping mechanism for depressive people just like cynism, at least I know that it serves that function for me: Can't be straight up negative, for dragging the mood down, so I'll settle for some sarcasm.