[LINK] Talking about AI

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Fri Feb 12 10:24:04 AEDT 2016


At 8:54 AM +1100 12/2/16, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>How to confuse AI - be sarcastic.
> ... the report concludes that the 
>solution to the problem is not necessarily one of pattern recognition 
>[PDF] [2], but rather a more sophisticated matrix that has some ability 
>to understand context.

So AI actually needs to be, well, intelligent?

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>I imagine being sarcastic using slang metaphors would present problems.
>
>Slashdot:
>Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem In Artificial Intelligence
>http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/11/1816208/why-sarcasm-is-such-a-problem-in-artificial-intelligence
>
>A new paper from researchers in India and Australia, "Automatic Sarcasm 
>Detection: A Survey," [1] highlights one of the strangest and ironically 
>most humorous facets of the problems in machine learning and humour. The 
>paper outlines ten years of research efforts from groups interested in 
>detecting sarcasm in online sources. It details the ways that academia 
>has approached the sarcasm problem, including flagging authors and 
>ring-fencing sarcastic data. However, the report concludes that the 
>solution to the problem is not necessarily one of pattern recognition 
>[PDF] [2], but rather a more sophisticated matrix that has some ability 
>to understand context.
>
>references
>[1] 
>https://thestack.com/cloud/2016/02/11/why-sarcasm-is-such-a-problem-in-artificial-intelligence/
>[2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.03426v1
>
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>Regards
>brd
>
>Bernard Robertson-Dunn
>Sydney Australia
>email:brd at iimetro.com.au
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