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Re: How I trained an AI to detect satire in under an hour

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Post by 24gttghh » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 8:25 PM UTC

beal wrote: post #7

turdnagel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. A bit of an exaggerated headline, no? The first paragraph basically refutes the headline. What was built was an Onion article detector.

Article seems like its a thinly veiled ad.

All the bolding of text basically gives it away...

Re: How I trained an AI to detect satire in under an hour

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Post by latenightcoding » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

This is a thinly veiled "machinebox" ad. Thanks for teaching us how to overfit in under an hour OP.

Re: How I trained an AI to detect satire in under an hour

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Post by DC-3 » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

colinhmit wrote: post #2

Anecdotally, I've noticed the onion uses certain phrases over and over again in articles - "area man" comes to mind. Did you really train it to detect satire, or just the onion writer's conventions? How does it perform when trained on onion articles and tested against some non-onion satire publication?

Nailed it. How many Onion articles have you seen end with a quip of the form "at press time". The articles have a flavour all of their own, which is certainly quite distinct from the deeper satirical mood.

Re: How I trained an AI to detect satire in under an hour

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

MajorSauce wrote: post #3

Without diminishing the author's efforts, I would say that he quickly teaches his AI how to recognize The Onion articles, instead of satire articles in general. I would be curious to see results with 3-4 news sources for each groups.

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Re: How I trained an AI to detect satire in under an hour

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Post by minimaxir » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 8:43 PM UTC

latenightcoding wrote: post #12

This is a thinly veiled "machinebox" ad. Thanks for teaching us how to overfit in under an hour OP.

I suspect the OP cheated by only training on 1 epoch; otherwise, the overfit would become obvious as the validation accuracy craters.

Re: How I trained an AI to detect satire in under an hour

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Post by Daniel3 » Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 9:03 PM UTC

I think the author has used the word "trained" satirically.