The language parsing/analysis of the chatbots is actually more impressive than the AI
It is not impressive at all. Stupid very old IRC chatbot Elisa from early 90s written in perl does not differ a lot. And it was not even neural network, just a small script with very simple algorithms who could, unlike chatbots, "self-educate" during conversation and hold a sensible dialogue with user. And despite it was heavily English language dependent, I was able to get sensible dialogues in Russian too. Kind of, because order of words in Russian sentence does not really matter, so that dim the picture a lot.
There is nothing impressive when you feed terabytes of questions and anwsers pairs from real internet conversations, and see something similar as a result. That is exactly now neural networks work. No any AI magic at all. Chatbot does not understand you. It does not even learn from you. It just calculate most probable reply from known replies for the question that is closest to yours.
I disagree, if you ask it classification questions it can figure things out based on pulling other definitions. The results are again that of a glorified search engine but it is able to meaningfully parse the question and the datasets in order to draw a conclusion. The conclusion drawn is very surface level because it's not actually intelligent but the language parsing may be better than you're giving it credit for
Right like a person would in communication it will tell you it doesn't know what you mean. I am not a fan of these bots and find that they're nothing more than glorified parlor tricks but their ability to parse language is the most impressive thing about them
Person will try to figure out what you mean in different ways, from asking questions to relying on context. ANN can't understand anything and can't analyse context at all. And without understanding context it is impossible to correctly parse phrase.
Also - "Naked conductor runs under the carriage" - every time a lot of fun with any ANN.
It is not impressive at all. Stupid very old IRC chatbot Elisa from early 90s written in perl does not differ a lot. And it was not even neural network, just a small script with very simple algorithms who could, unlike chatbots, "self-educate" during conversation and hold a sensible dialogue with user. And despite it was heavily English language dependent, I was able to get sensible dialogues in Russian too. Kind of, because order of words in Russian sentence does not really matter, so that dim the picture a lot.
There is nothing impressive when you feed terabytes of questions and anwsers pairs from real internet conversations, and see something similar as a result. That is exactly now neural networks work. No any AI magic at all. Chatbot does not understand you. It does not even learn from you. It just calculate most probable reply from known replies for the question that is closest to yours.
I disagree, if you ask it classification questions it can figure things out based on pulling other definitions. The results are again that of a glorified search engine but it is able to meaningfully parse the question and the datasets in order to draw a conclusion. The conclusion drawn is very surface level because it's not actually intelligent but the language parsing may be better than you're giving it credit for
Just try to talk with this toy using non-existing words.
Right like a person would in communication it will tell you it doesn't know what you mean. I am not a fan of these bots and find that they're nothing more than glorified parlor tricks but their ability to parse language is the most impressive thing about them
Person will try to figure out what you mean in different ways, from asking questions to relying on context. ANN can't understand anything and can't analyse context at all. And without understanding context it is impossible to correctly parse phrase.
Also - "Naked conductor runs under the carriage" - every time a lot of fun with any ANN.