Launch HN: Plasticity (YC S17) – APIs for human-like natural language interfaces

Post by ORioN63 » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 6:43 PM UTC

acsands13 wrote: post #11

visarga wrote: post #7

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I asked "What is taller, a dog or a giraffe?" and it didn't know. Common sense is not yet in the knowledge graph. Maybe it can't perform comparisons Also: "What is the largest city in Europe?" -> "New York City". "What is the largest city in the world?" -> "Gotham City" So it seems to make KB lookup errors and probably can't do logic/set operations.

Correct, we can't do logic/set operations yet, but we can handle some graph traversal questions where the answer is the property of a n-off related entity like: (1) "Who is Arya Stark's father's wife?" or (2) "Mark Zuckerberg's wife's birthday"

Post by patelajay285 » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 6:48 PM UTC

ORioN63 wrote: post #21

acsands13 wrote: post #11

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Correct, we can't do logic/set operations yet, but we can handle some graph traversal questions where the answer is the property of a n-off related entity like: (1) "Who is Arya Stark's father's wife?" or (2) "Mark Zuckerberg's wife's birthday"

I also tried things like: How old is the French Prime-Minister? How old is the Portuguese President? President always defaults to Trump and Prime-Minister to May (May also responds with two different results even though it show the same text(/source?). Also in Sapien "Prime-Minister" wasn't recognized. I'm very excited about technologies like this one.

Post by bobbylox » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 7:09 PM UTC

zitterbewegung wrote: post #22

This is really cool. Website design is killer and looks beautiful. I tried "Who married the 51st president?" which didn't work but when I tried "Who married Barack Obama?" it responded correctly. I then tried "Who married the president?" and got the correct responses also. The only thing I would change is at the bottom of the Plasticity demo you should have a big sign up button. And a link to your documentation.

Post by patelajay285 » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 7:26 PM UTC

gurut wrote: post #26

What would a good non-commercial use case of this product be like? Would it help simplify/understand Terms & Conditions better? Text summarization?

Post by zitterbewegung » Fri, Aug 18, 2017, 7:43 PM UTC

patelajay285 wrote: post #24

zitterbewegung wrote: post #22

This is really cool. Website design is killer and looks beautiful. I tried "Who married the 51st president?" which didn't work but when I tried "Who married Barack Obama?" it responded correctly. I then tried "Who married the president?" and got the correct responses also. The only thing I would change is at the bottom of the Plasticity demo you should have a big sign up button. And a link to your documentation.

Thanks! That's good feedback on the layout, we're changing it now!