[LINK] Talking about AI

[Jim Birch]

Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but wit in general is what
biologists call sexual display. It aims to demonstrate the speaker's - or,
content originator's - mental machinery at its performance peak and
breaking the rules is part of the game.

It is difficult by design.

Jim

On 12 February 2016 at 10:24, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
wrote:

> 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?
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> >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
> >
> >--
> >
> >Regards
> >brd
> >
> >Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> >Sydney Australia
> >email:brd at iimetro.com.au
> >web:www.drbrd.com
> >web:www.problemsfirst.com
> >Blog:www.problemsfirst.com/blog
> >
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