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by JumpCrisscross 3475 days ago
Language is something we intuitively understand. To get weak AI's potential, consider how many less-intuitive problems might be similarly addressable.
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Word embeddings are actually quite neat. You get to the poinr where you can do QUEEN - OLD - PRESIDENT = GIRL. Or take the new google translate as a very practical example. But yes, it's not quite the groundbreaking progress that has been achieved in image and video.
>You get to the poinr where you can do QUEEN - OLD - PRESIDENT = GIRL.

That's very nice, but it seems to miss the difference between a monarchy and a presidential republic.