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Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

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Re: Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

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Post by biomimic »

Udik wrote: post #33

Completely meaningless. "Written by a computer" doesn't really mean anything. What's important it's the breadth and variety of the content an algorithm can generate, its ability to choose the most relevant among its input data, and the amount of meaningless content that has to be discarded by a human supervisor before publishing. Take fragment 6: “Tuesday was a great day for W. Roberts, as the junior pitcher threw a…

This also has a lot to do with content summarization, for example, take a look at the "fifty shades text generator" and http://genopharmix.com/TuataraSum/

Re: Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

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Post by bigphishy »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #43
Udik wrote: post #33

Completely meaningless. "Written by a computer" doesn't really mean anything. What's important it's the breadth and variety of the content an algorithm can generate, its ability to choose the most relevant among its input data, and the amount of meaningless content that has to be discarded by a human supervisor before publishing. Take fragment 6: “Tuesday was a great day for W. Roberts, as the junior pitcher threw a…

and the amount of meaningless content that has to be discarded by a human supervisor before publishing. If that actually happened the web would be a pretty barren place. Some of the most popular tech and science news websites publish short news articles that make you wonder about this sort of stuff. I suppose an algorithm, whether machine or human, is only as good as the operator.

Computer hardware will always be limited by the software that programmers write for it.

Re: Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

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Post by getdavidhiggins »

I brought up this scenario a few months ago with 'content engines', or 'content as a service'. Natural Language Generation (NLG) is no trivial matter. The ones who have mastered algorithmic writing are the new gods of our time. Can you imagine not having to pay the team of writers at NYT? Exactly ― you can't imagine: http://blog.higg.im/2014/03/14/percolate-content-marketing/

Re: Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

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Post by Ih8SF »

You know what? This is what I think about most of the comments on Socialist Media sites like digg, reddit, and this place. Most of the comments are probably bots that push the "conversation" in the direction that absolutely fits the sites owners political agenda.

This is what has actually destroyed this new internet bubble. You can shout me down as wrong all you want, but it won't change the undeniable fact that you are getting scrutinized harder and harder for your schemes of making IPOs out of shell companies who's big tech is some crappy app that can be copied in about 2 days of coding.

Re: Did a Human or a Computer Write This?

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Post by electromagnetic »

carbocation wrote: post #4
cowpig wrote: post #2

I got 7/10, but I think I would do better on prose with 3-4 sentences rather than a single one. Poetry is probably a bit tougher though. I don't find computer-generated snippets that impressive--I mean, a lot of it is just pumping out variations or markov-generated mix-and-matches of things humans wrote in the first place. More impressive would be passing the Turing Test :D

I believe it's out of 8, so either you missed 3 and got 5/8 or you nailed it and got 7/8 :-) I, for one, was wholly duped by the computers, with a 50% success rate.

I got 7/8, one of the game scores got me.

I'm a writer, so it's reassuring I'm able to tell the difference even in something so trivially short as game scores, and I don't follow a single sport.

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