Numlock News: January 31, 2020 • Chatbots, Scotxit, Radon
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By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Check out the Numlock Awards Supplement for some pre-Oscars forecasts and coverage, and the Book Club is voting on the next few books right now if you want to hop on. Bot Google has unleashed a new chatbot called Meena that was trained on 341 gigabytes of social media conversation, meaning that I can assume it has a veritable ocean of cringe-worthy customer service complaints, terrible film opinions and jarring sexual depravities just gushing underneath the hood. The creators also designed a new metric called the Sensibleness and Specificity Average, which measures how well a bot can carry on a conversation. Human conversation comes in at around 86 percent, Mitsuku, the current state-of-the-art chatbot, scored 56 percent, but Google says Meena scored a
Numlock News: January 31, 2020 • Chatbots, Scotxit, Radon
Numlock News: January 31, 2020 • Chatbots…
Numlock News: January 31, 2020 • Chatbots, Scotxit, Radon
By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Check out the Numlock Awards Supplement for some pre-Oscars forecasts and coverage, and the Book Club is voting on the next few books right now if you want to hop on. Bot Google has unleashed a new chatbot called Meena that was trained on 341 gigabytes of social media conversation, meaning that I can assume it has a veritable ocean of cringe-worthy customer service complaints, terrible film opinions and jarring sexual depravities just gushing underneath the hood. The creators also designed a new metric called the Sensibleness and Specificity Average, which measures how well a bot can carry on a conversation. Human conversation comes in at around 86 percent, Mitsuku, the current state-of-the-art chatbot, scored 56 percent, but Google says Meena scored a