So how well does this scale, if all of Facebook's users are using "M" like this?
Launch is limited to selected users in Silicon Valley.
That explains why Facebook.M has such knowledge of the local area.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to avoid giving information about whether you are an AI or human, you simply respond "No." Besides, the CAPTCHA's that are sufficiently hard to solve for computers are already hard for humans as well.
Question isn't "will you?" -- it's "can you?"
"Yes, but I don't want to."
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#93Can 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…
HN hosted an article recently about someone's project that cancel's Comcast for you.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The translation of unrestricted human language into a restricted, "logical" language which could be understood mechanically, is another long-standing problem - going back as far as Liebniz - which is unlikely to be solved by a few gigabytes of chat logs.
Are you claiming that chat logs won't contribute at all? Or are you claiming that progress is irrelevant unless someone launches a 100% solution all at once?
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought Edison had mostly been dismissed as not even remotely as great an inventor as most people thought he was?
He was a businessman, who hired people to invent things. He was certainly useful, but it's always been surprising to me how much credit he got for inventing things.
Capitalism and Personal Branding at its finest.
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#96Can 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…
HN hosted an article recently about someone's project that cancel's Comcast for you.
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#97"I'm AI but humans help train me" The implication to me is that the chat is with a human, who is using an AI tool with the intention of training that tool. What better way to train a new service than to launch it, then answer all the weird, unexpected questions with humans? Gradually more of the questions get answered, the AI gets better trained, and the human-AI becomes increasing more AI. Further, as the AI gets be…
Yeah I feel like some responses are pulled up, and then "M" gets assisted to pick the best answer, in the case an answer is not generated someone types one out. I would call it "Assisted AI" if anything, whereby the AI is monitored for accuracy. It makes sense to me, eventually in theory it would not need as much assistance, and even if it still would need assistance, it would still be one of the more reliable AI systems yet to some degree.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that's exactly the point: is it AI trained by people, or people aided by AI tools? It's not the same.
See http://www.wired.com/2015/08/how-facebook-m-works/
Yes, the article is explicit: "For more complicated tasks, such as making a driving test appointment at the DMV, the humans will do most of the heavy lifting. They’ll actually place a call to the DMV."
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#99Does anyone know how can I try it ? I can't find a link or something like that.
Looks like a limited roll-out to users in the Bay Area.