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Almost impossible to dance to unless you're a body popper ..
Almost impossible to dance to unless you're a body popper ..
Almost certainly. Portal was big back in the day.That has to be an in joke...
Part of that is down to the fact that native speakers can submit better translations to Google Translate. They probably feed that into their AI and it gradually improves.A very long article on how Google greatly improved the quality of it's translation service.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html
a whole lot more at the link above
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Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media. Apparently Google Translate, the company’s popular machine-translation service, had suddenly and almost immeasurably improved. Rekimoto visited Translate himself and began to experiment with it. He was astonished. He had to go to sleep, but Translate refused to relax its grip on his imagination.
Rekimoto wrote up his initial findings in a blog post. First, he compared a few sentences from two published versions of “The Great Gatsby,” Takashi Nozaki’s 1957 translation and Haruki Murakami’s more recent iteration, with what this new Google Translate was able to produce. Murakami’s translation is written “in very polished Japanese,” Rekimoto explained to me later via email, but the prose is distinctively “Murakami-style.” By contrast, Google’s translation — despite some “small unnaturalness” — reads to him as “more transparent.”
Ah, is that how it works? Just via contributor content, demotic upvotes and peer benevolence, like Wikipedia?down to the fact that native speakers can submit better translations
Yes, there's a 'Suggest an edit' button that appears when you've put in some text for translation. If you're a native speaker and you think it's a poor translation, you can submit a better one. Google Translate has a 'translation memory' that works like professional software used by translators - it remembers certain words and phrases, and allows re-use of those translations. So, if you type in a common phrase or sentence for which a good translation already exists, it will use that translation. For words and sentences that are less familiar, it will attempt to work out the meaning (partly by using the context).Ah, is that how it works? Just via contributor content, demotic upvotes and peer benevolence, like Wikipedia?
I had thought there was an aspect of self-propelled synthesis to it, but maybe not. So it's not so much Artificial Intelligence as Natural Non-Stupidity....
Yes, there's a 'Suggest an edit' button that appears when you've put in some text for translation. If you're a native speaker and you think it's a poor translation, you can submit a better one. Google Translate has a 'translation memory' that works like professional software used by translators - it remembers certain words and phrases, and allows re-use of those translations. So, if you type in a common phrase or sentence for which a good translation already exists, it will use that translation. For words and sentences that are less familiar, it will attempt to work out the meaning (partly by using the context).
That's lucky.One dividend from the internet (google, social media, etc.) that doesn't get a lot of attention is that it has generated HUGE databases of text, language, and images that facilitate the training of AI's.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/01/why-it-matters-that-human-poker-pros-are-getting-trounced-by-an-ai/We’re at the halfway point of the epic 20-day, 150,000-hand “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” Texas Hold’em Poker tournament, and a machine named Libratus is trouncing a quartet of professional human players. Should the machine maintain its substantial lead — currently at $701,242 (£560,000) — it will be considered a major milestone in the history of AI. Here’s why.
Given the early results, it appears that we’ll soon be able to add Heads-Up, No-Limit Texas Hold’em poker (HUNL) to the list of games where AI has surpassed the best humans — a growing list that includes Othello, chess, checkers, Jeopardy!, and as we witnessed last year, Go. Unlike chess and Go, however, this popular version of poker involves bluffing, hidden cards, and imperfect information, which machines find notoriously difficult to handle. Computer scientists say HUNL represents the “last frontier” of game solving, signifying a milestone in the development of AI — and an achievement that would represent a major step towards more human-like intelligence.
People are using social media to train AI? The Terminators will be too busy obsessing over the Kardashians to harm us.That's lucky.
I like the way you think.And to think about it, perhaps an advanced civilisation created a computer simulation where the creators of the simulation we are in, lives in.
Robots set to control petrol prices and increase them during peak times
By DanielCL | Posted: May 23, 2017
Artificial intelligence is set to start charging motorists more for petrol during bank holidays and school runs.
Major UK supermarkets are in late-stage talks with Denmark-based a2i Systems, the firm behind the computer algorithm, and the new fuel price optimisation system could be installed within the next few months.
This means that drivers could face fuel prices that fluctuate several times a day, with costs rising and falling by up to 2p a litre, approximately £1 per tank, the Daily Telegraph reports.
While new to the UK, thousands of companies across Europe and the US are already using the technology, which typically changes fuel prices between four and ten times each day.
The algorithm is modeled on the human brain and scours databases of customer information to predict how consumers and competitors will behave.
This means that the artificial intelligence can manipulate prices according to business performance in real time.
For example, the algorithm could implement the dropping of prices during quiet spells to attract customers, while hiking them during busy spells such as school runs or sunny spells.
Luke Bosdet, a fuel analyst at the AA, said: "This represents a huge change which would be most unfair on commuters and families visiting relatives during the holidays.
"It will wind them up no end as they will become wise to the fact that retailers can exploit price movements."
Jason Lloyd, managing director at Petrolprices.com, has responded positively to the news.
He said: "The petrol industry in the UK hasn't changed at all for about 40 years meaning it is very behind the times compared to other countries.
"But pumps have been manually raising prices at weekends and this will let them flex their prices on a real time basis, which is somewhat of a holy grail for them."
Martin McTague, director at a3c, the UK arm of a2i, said: "This way of petrol pricing is completely new to the UK. Currently petrol pumps' prices are very competitor-focused rather than being focused on the behaviour of customers."
According to Petrolprices.com, the average cost for unleaded fuel in Cornwall currently stands at 118.2p per litre, with diesel at 119.9p per litre.
http://www.cornwalllive.com/robots-...g-peak-times/story-30348395-detail/story.html
Artificial intelligence is set to start charging motorists more for petrol during bank holidays and school runs.
Robots set to control petrol prices and increase them during peak times
By DanielCL | Posted: May 23, 2017
Artificial intelligence is set to start charging motorists more for petrol during bank holidays and school runs.
Major UK supermarkets are in late-stage talks with Denmark-based a2i Systems, the firm behind the computer algorithm, and the new fuel price optimisation system could be installed within the next few months.
This means that drivers could face fuel prices that fluctuate several times a day, with costs rising and falling by up to 2p a litre, approximately £1 per tank, the Daily Telegraph reports.
While new to the UK, thousands of companies across Europe and the US are already using the technology, which typically changes fuel prices between four and ten times each day.
The algorithm is modeled on the human brain and scours databases of customer information to predict how consumers and competitors will behave.
This means that the artificial intelligence can manipulate prices according to business performance in real time.
For example, the algorithm could implement the dropping of prices during quiet spells to attract customers, while hiking them during busy spells such as school runs or sunny spells.
Luke Bosdet, a fuel analyst at the AA, said: "This represents a huge change which would be most unfair on commuters and families visiting relatives during the holidays.
"It will wind them up no end as they will become wise to the fact that retailers can exploit price movements."
Jason Lloyd, managing director at Petrolprices.com, has responded positively to the news.
He said: "The petrol industry in the UK hasn't changed at all for about 40 years meaning it is very behind the times compared to other countries.
"But pumps have been manually raising prices at weekends and this will let them flex their prices on a real time basis, which is somewhat of a holy grail for them."
Martin McTague, director at a3c, the UK arm of a2i, said: "This way of petrol pricing is completely new to the UK. Currently petrol pumps' prices are very competitor-focused rather than being focused on the behaviour of customers."
According to Petrolprices.com, the average cost for unleaded fuel in Cornwall currently stands at 118.2p per litre, with diesel at 119.9p per litre.
http://www.cornwalllive.com/robots-...g-peak-times/story-30348395-detail/story.html
I'm betting that the reason the code was incomprehensible and untranslatable is that it was gibberish with zero information content. I don't think FB shut down the experiment because it was becoming creepy smart, but because it wasn't producing meaningful results. We're still a long way from building a true AI.