> Even the calmer takes on this are anthromorphizing the machines too much and attributing intelligence to the complete lack thereof.
Exactly. I haven't read the details of the implementation of the system mentioned in the article, but the outputs remind me a lot of
what was returned by a text generating neural network of this tutorial that I did once:
Especially with fewer epochs (<10) the generated text was part gibberish, part endless repetitions of common phrases or basic words like "the" - simply
because (surprise!) "the" is one of the more frequently used words in speech.
Pulling this out of context, one could also say "This AI is inventing its own language, just by reading Alice in Wonderland!", which is of course utter bullshit.
Exactly. I haven't read the details of the implementation of the system mentioned in the article, but the outputs remind me a lot of what was returned by a text generating neural network of this tutorial that I did once:
http://machinelearningmastery.com/text-generation-lstm-recur...
Especially with fewer epochs (<10) the generated text was part gibberish, part endless repetitions of common phrases or basic words like "the" - simply because (surprise!) "the" is one of the more frequently used words in speech.
Pulling this out of context, one could also say "This AI is inventing its own language, just by reading Alice in Wonderland!", which is of course utter bullshit.