François Chollet on Twitter: "The ability to convey intent and emotions through voice seems like a universal constant that predates language. Ever noticed how the tone you'd use to ask a question, or give an order, is the same in essentially every language?"

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1. Ahmed Ghannam‏ @FieryPhoenix7 18 Dec 2017
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  Meanwhile I don’t envy future AI researchers who will have to somehow incorporate these emotions into their algorithms.
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1. Andrei Anton‏ @andreinot 19 Dec 2017
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  the "ability that predates language" - it sucks when you're really bad at it believe me AI agents will have a much easier time with "mostly context, tone & intonation independent" langs like , nord-Euro. etc., where you can mostly fuck up the tone, but it still "works"
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1. Val Brigatti ‏ @val_brigatti 19 Dec 2017
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  That’s obvious if you think of our interactions with animals. It matters more how you say than what you say.
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1. Aristarkh Z.‏ @onyxmast3r 19 Dec 2017
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  Grammar is at least partly “wired” into us (https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4186 …), tone interpretation might be too. Though one would preferably experiment on children raised by wolves (or having aphasia), although that looks unethical and getting enough results might be challenging.
  
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1. Patrick J.‏ @xrb 19 Dec 2017
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  The tone (non-verbal) is also more important than the verbal content. Hence saying mean words with a friendly tone is less harsh than nice words with a mean tone.
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1. amit kumar‏ @kumar_amit 19 Dec 2017
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  Well machine learning models need to understand this. Maybe understand a joke.
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1. Anna Gát · NYC, SF, DC ‏ @TheAnnaGat 19 Dec 2017
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  Really? Link? Non-indo-European languages too? In my native tongue, Hungarian, a question's intonation for ex. is different from that in English. (Sp, Fr, Ge also differ in cadence from each other tho each has tone signal for interrogation...)
  
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1. GoodVort26‏ @GoodVort26 19 Dec 2017
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  According to @divided_brain , we used to hum to each other to communicate before we spoke to each other to communicate
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