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Were we under some sort of pretense that AI would be explainable? What's the ancestry of that idea?
Who would have guessed that having a highly complex black box means you can't explain what's going on inside that black box... My pet theory is that this is the reason why Siri, Alexa and co. still are shit and haven't moved an inch forward since their inception. I like to play "sleep music" through Alexa when I bring my kid to bed. For his mid day nap it all works perfectly. But in the evening when I say the same ph…
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> you can't explain what's going on inside that black box Do you have a better solution for speech recognition? We all know how well speech recognition works in reality, and we know language models can accomplish more complex tasks than setting your music and lights. These models are not state of the art, they are cheap versions for scaling up to millions of users. It's sad but we rarely get to see SOTA in a product.
OP just described ridiculously bad behavior that consistently changes over time, not randomly random results. That's more a case of bad engineering (ie light sensor interfering with microphone data feed) or some stupid management decision then 'AI is complicated but we don't have anything better'
You do realise that a neural net, given the same input, will always give the same output, if you set your random seeds of course. It doesn't depend on time of day unless you degrade the service when it is overloaded - say, you use a different model in the evening that is 10x faster but 2x worse.
Who would have guessed that having a highly complex black box means you can't explain what's going on inside that black box... My pet theory is that this is the reason why Siri, Alexa and co. still are shit and haven't moved an inch forward since their inception. I like to play "sleep music" through Alexa when I bring my kid to bed. For his mid day nap it all works perfectly. But in the evening when I say the same ph…
Are you sure you are speaking as clearly in the evening? I don’t understand how voice command recognition could fluctuate based on AI and time of day.
I don't see a problem with not being able to explain how something works as long as it's not failing empirically. Scientists also cannot explain how humans work in detail and yet humans are "allowed" to do many things and make many decisions that cannot be fully explained. The question for me is...if I have an AI system that outperforms humans empirically, why do I need to understand how it works to use it? In fact i…
Because, for a start, if you don't have a clue how it works, it's pretty difficult to have any confidence that it will actually outperform humans empirically in the long run, or in a specific set of circumstances.
Who would have guessed that having a highly complex black box means you can't explain what's going on inside that black box... My pet theory is that this is the reason why Siri, Alexa and co. still are shit and haven't moved an inch forward since their inception. I like to play "sleep music" through Alexa when I bring my kid to bed. For his mid day nap it all works perfectly. But in the evening when I say the same ph…
Are you sure you are speaking as clearly in the evening? I don’t understand how voice command recognition could fluctuate based on AI and time of day.
Who would have guessed that having a highly complex black box means you can't explain what's going on inside that black box... My pet theory is that this is the reason why Siri, Alexa and co. still are shit and haven't moved an inch forward since their inception. I like to play "sleep music" through Alexa when I bring my kid to bed. For his mid day nap it all works perfectly. But in the evening when I say the same ph…
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OP just described ridiculously bad behavior that consistently changes over time, not randomly random results. That's more a case of bad engineering (ie light sensor interfering with microphone data feed) or some stupid management decision then 'AI is complicated but we don't have anything better'
I think it was management that chose to go with a cheaper model, not the engineers. They got to think about profits. You do realise that a neural net, given the same input, will always give the same output, if you set your random seeds of course. It doesn't depend on time of day unless you degrade the service when it is overloaded - say, you use a different model in the evening that is 10x faster but 2x worse.
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> suspect this article was written by AI. Or a hack journalist. A friend of mine did not belive that the AI based astroturfing problem is real, he though he would tell apart human tweets / letters / phonecalls vs bots. But have you seen some of the dumb shit real people post? the overlap between mental people and bad ai is huge
I'm not sure how many people have messed around with the Character.ai beta but personally I'm awed that it does some of the things it does. It predictably fails at times and makes some odd mistakes, but at other times it insightfully points things out that I hadn't considered and explains itself quite eloquently when prompted. It's a lot better discussing literature and philosophy than science, though... and a compul…
Who would have guessed that having a highly complex black box means you can't explain what's going on inside that black box... My pet theory is that this is the reason why Siri, Alexa and co. still are shit and haven't moved an inch forward since their inception. I like to play "sleep music" through Alexa when I bring my kid to bed. For his mid day nap it all works perfectly. But in the evening when I say the same ph…
This is why I don't even like the "AI assisted autocomplete". I want consistency, not fanciness. consistency breeds productivity. autocompleting different things from 1 file to the next is not helpful.
In the last year or so I've noticed more and more that I have to fix misspellings or grammatical mistakes that were introduced by autocorrect. The most common culprits I notice are contractions (when I am sick I am not "I'll", "its" sometimes actually the contracted subject and verb, etc).