But Facebook publicly admitted that the service is powered by real humans:
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/facebook-launches-m-new-kind-vi...
Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test
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#102This guy is hilarious. If you're reading HN comments you know that AI isn't quite there yet right? We're easily 5-10 years away from anything you're looking for.
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#103I wonder how many years it will be before a real AI can compete with Facebook's AI? I guess by the time that's possible Facebook's pretend AI will already have cornered the market. The public will only be able to see that you were the late entrant and that while your AI is faster it's occasionally incorrect in peculiar ways... This seems like a fairly solid plan by Facebook to crown themselves the winners of a race t…
> I guess by the time that's possible Facebook's pretend AI will already have cornered the market. And cost Facebook a lot of money. Are they planning to pay for personal assistants for everyone?
> Are they planning to pay for personal assistants for everyone?
In the new rules of the new economy, this won't be a problem. Money grows on trees. "Ad" infinity!
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#104Can M wade through phone support menus and cancel Comcast subscriptions? I look forward to a darkly-humorous future in which we pit poorly-paid third-world citizens against each other in wars of call center attrition. Better, once we equip them with those sound-board UIs that play pre-recorded answers in native English-speaking voices (can't find the link), English can become a transmission protocol that few people d…
Perhaps a future where modern English has become archaic but still spoken only by computers to each other, because the upgrade is not cost effective
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#105For something with a similar flavour, see http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/csem/coffeehouse.html ; start reading where it says "Post Scriptum".
Didn't like that semicolon.
Ugh. Here's the URL without punctuation after it: http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/csem/coffeehouse.html
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#106Humans working at facebook scale! Would be interesting to see how many people are employed to do this...Are they Googling?
The reference to Google Maps was a surprise to me... Does't FB typically relies on Bing maps?
Indeed, they do. Facebook has traditionally been inclined towards Microsoft than Google. Probably because they are the lesser rivals in business.
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#107I just had the perfect idea for a test, but then I went back to the recent discussion on Mimic[0] and double checked my favorite example[1]. Google has already updated their support, but there is a chance that Facebook M is still behind. Test them now before it is too late:
"When is the next Τаylοr Ѕwіft concert in my area?"
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
AIs are already trained on huge corpuses of natural human communication, but they still aren't able to reliably analyze human language. Adding a few more gigabytes of chat logs isn't going to do much.
They weren't trained to read natural language, and then respond with some programmatic action filtered into natural language: Bot reads "What's the temperature like near me?" Person calls "$get user-local-temperature" API responds "{temperature:{f:77},{c:99}}" Human writes "It's 77 degrees outside!" Training set now contains that relationship between that question, that API call, that response, and that natural langu…
Facebook's M is powered by Wit.ai (who they acquired a while back), which basically does what you're talking about. They translate natural language into machine readable data structures. Honestly, its interesting tech and being able to feed in facebook level data volume should prove very good for them.
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#109Bad typing is definitely not enough to measure if an AI is really a human. As a teenager, I wrote a chatbot for an online text based game. I have it knowledge of a QWERTY keyboard layout, and when "typing" it had a small random chance of pressing the key next to the key it wanted to press. It would also sometimes transpose characters. Sloppy typing can be simulated. Might be an interesting test to do a statistical an…
I just realized I typed "have" instead of "gave". Now everyone knows I'm a robot. -_-
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#110Bad typing is definitely not enough to measure if an AI is really a human. As a teenager, I wrote a chatbot for an online text based game. I have it knowledge of a QWERTY keyboard layout, and when "typing" it had a small random chance of pressing the key next to the key it wanted to press. It would also sometimes transpose characters. Sloppy typing can be simulated. Might be an interesting test to do a statistical an…
Simulating bad typing is only necessary to fake a human. Here, having bad typing when faking an AI is stranger. That said, AIs trained through the chat transcripts of a large number of conversations may produce mistakes. I remember reading a paper that gave good results that way, with the side-effect that it produces typing mistakes as a result. I cannot find that paper again, unfortunately. Edit: found it! http://ar…
I wonder if there's code available, from that paper. Results look promising.
Thanks for sharing!