It is so far only on a marketing par with the ргьфт - in fact the guys from Microsoft received WER (word error rate) comparable with the number of errors that would make a person. But these are inherently different mistakes - people often pass unimportant words while algorithm does not recognize some not-so running or vernacular words.
Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
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#132Re: Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
#133The term "human parity" refers to a comparison of the error rate, which is a single scalar summarizing performance in terms of mistakes made. It says nothing about the kind of mistakes, and I can easily imagine that machines qualitatively do not make at all the same kind of mistakes as humans. I'd be curious to know if the kind of mistakes machines make might strike human listeners as quite stupid, but maybe not.. ma…
The other day I asked Siri, "Remind me to pick up [daughter's name]" but it interpreted that as, "Remind me to pick up pussy." A more context-aware engine would realise we don't even have a cat. On the other hand it made me wonder to what extent Siri is trained on real-world data from other users.
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Let alone the datasets used to train, which are worth a lot of money.
Aussie company (Appen) provides the datasets :D
That's the one that seems to be using illegal GCHQ wiretaps ... see the (Dutch) article below about an Appen translator getting a private voicemail of her ex to translate.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/privegesprekken-van-duizenden-...
Re: Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
#135How long do you think it is until captioning companies / TRSs such as Captel downsize significantly because of tech like this?
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
For Artificial Intelligence to believe in God would be for it to believe in its makers, which are human. A machine would be intelligent to be aware that it was made by man. A man doesn't need to believe in God to be intelligent. In fact, the two are pretty much inversely related.
There are a lot of very smart people who are at at least Deist levels of faith. I'd say it's orthogonal. An example? C.S. Lewis. There is nothing wrong with that sort of metaphor, no matter how much stress you place on it. If you think of religion as a technology, then it can be abused but the abuse doesn't mean it's bad.
Or Donald Knuth.
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#137Re: Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was recently at a bar where they showed a movie with incomprehensible subtitles (English to English). I assume this was because they skimped and bought automatic subtitling. I think one important aspect is while humans miss words, they often get the sentence meaning correct. When computers miss words, they tend to substitute words that sound similar. That's readable if you have time but not necessarily as a stream…
It might have also been a 'bootleg' DVD from China or downloaded a version from there. I've had quite a few where they had done a horrible job translating into Chinese for the subtitles already, and then did a literal machine translation back to English. The character on the screen said "Hello", the English subtitle said "You good." Which would be the literal translation of nihao.
It English subtitling on an movie in English, as they often have at bars.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aussie company (Appen) provides the datasets :D
That's the one that seems to be using illegal GCHQ wiretaps ... see the (Dutch) article below about an Appen translator getting a private voicemail of her ex to translate. http://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/privegesprekken-van-duizenden-...
No, it's GCHQ contracting Appen. They only deliver the platform for distributed outsourced transcription.
Re: Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
#140I think it's more impressive when you actually hear a sample from the switchboard task: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/desc/addenda/LDC97S62.wav