I couldn't find a paper for this one. Can anyone else? Dialogue really is a massive missing piece in NLP (and machine interaction in general). Without dialogue, we're giving algorithms much harder tasks than we give people. A person can always ask clarifying questions before answering. (Dialogue is of course much harder for other reasons) So it'd be really nice to read about their self-described "breakthrough" in mor…
LaMDA: Google's New Conversation Technology
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#12I couldn't find a paper for this one. Can anyone else? Dialogue really is a massive missing piece in NLP (and machine interaction in general). Without dialogue, we're giving algorithms much harder tasks than we give people. A person can always ask clarifying questions before answering. (Dialogue is of course much harder for other reasons) So it'd be really nice to read about their self-described "breakthrough" in mor…
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#13I couldn't find a paper for this one. Can anyone else? Dialogue really is a massive missing piece in NLP (and machine interaction in general). Without dialogue, we're giving algorithms much harder tasks than we give people. A person can always ask clarifying questions before answering. (Dialogue is of course much harder for other reasons) So it'd be really nice to read about their self-described "breakthrough" in mor…
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09977
I believe that's a just a predecessor to LaMDA.
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#14How long until this is integrated product side? It seems like they bring up these really cool demos that seem like the Star Trek computer every couple years, but Assistant can't do a whole lot more than Siri or Alexa still.
IME, Assistant did do a whole lot more than Siri or Alexa in the past. It had a similar set of features, but with Assistant I could speak casually and with Alexa/Siri it was necessary to learn specific trigger phrases. More recently I find that Alexa has caught up. And maybe Assistant has gotten worse. Not sure about Siri.
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#15I have been researching making a therapy chat bot for years... it's going to happen.
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#16I have been researching making a therapy chat bot for years... it's going to happen. https://github.com/andrewt3000/carl_voice
To be honest, the thought of AI doing therapy (and it's reliance on big data) sounds very black mirror to me.
How long do you think it'll take ad companies to do an end run around patient protections and start serving ads based on "metadata"? Got anxiety? Try our new meds! Worried about the future? How about some life insurance or annuities? Etc. Things will get very exploitative very fast.
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#17If you want a freely available system that attacks this problem then Blenderbot is a good choice (made by Facebook)[1] . It is also freely available and integrated with Huggingface.
[1] https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... [2] https://huggingface.co/facebook/blenderbot-3B
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#18I have been researching making a therapy chat bot for years... it's going to happen. https://github.com/andrewt3000/carl_voice
To be honest, the thought of AI doing therapy (and it's reliance on big data) sounds very black mirror to me. How long do you think it'll take ad companies to do an end run around patient protections and start serving ads based on "metadata"? Got anxiety? Try our new meds! Worried about the future? How about some life insurance or annuities? Etc. Things will get very exploitative very fast.
Tech companies don't need a specific therapy app to know if you have anxiety.
If they wanted to be nefarious in this way, they could just mine your chats and emails and get a great idea about your state of mind. They wouldn't even have to get around potentially legally privileged information.
My go-to related example of this: People often worry that Facebook is listening to their conversations because they'll see an ad related to a conversation soon after. You probably shouldn't worry that they might be listening to you (because they're not), but you might want to worry that they didn't need to listen to you to know what ad to serve you.
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#19We really need to stop calling things "lambda". You'd think Google would grasp the concept of unique names on the internet, but I suppose they can always push their own stuff to the top.
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#20I have been researching making a therapy chat bot for years... it's going to happen. https://github.com/andrewt3000/carl_voice
To be honest, the thought of AI doing therapy (and it's reliance on big data) sounds very black mirror to me. How long do you think it'll take ad companies to do an end run around patient protections and start serving ads based on "metadata"? Got anxiety? Try our new meds! Worried about the future? How about some life insurance or annuities? Etc. Things will get very exploitative very fast.
This already happens (but less targeted). I think that's why Australia banned pharmaceutical ads. https://theconversation.com/drug-ads-only-help-big-pharmas-b...