two thoughts on hofstadter’s take on AI translation in the Atlantic: 1. His examples are excellent and show ways in which languages is not just mastering syntax-lexicon-morphology code but requires real understanding of subject areas under discussion (and *not* under discussion)
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did you see the rest of my tweets?
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Yeah I saw them. Are you saying that Google aren't simply brute forcing connections, or that they are looking at meaning, or both?
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well first did you read the article I mentioned? might be easier, since the sense in which eg MC methods are brute force as opposed to coding knowledge-based heuristics will be clear if you see Hofstadter’s contrast btw AI and “understanding”
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I am not privy to AlphaGo and other deep AI research strategies but DH’s pt is that google transl doesn’t seem to understand anything about the goal of a sentence or understand the domain of objects it's referring to
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I think he’s probably correct that they are not trying to teach it to understand those things separately, just looking at text-to-text statistics but that isn’t necessarily a problem
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