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Will Sarcasm Prove to Be AI’s Kryptonite?
The Stream ^ | May 30, 2024 | MICHAEL BROWN

Posted on 05/31/2024 1:23:09 PM PDT by gitmo

The screenshots indicated AI’s inability to detect sarcastic answers from genuine answers, since it is the very nature of sarcasm to say the opposite of what you mean as though you really mean it. AI was missing a sarcasm detector.

What great advice! Bank on it.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: ai; sarcasm
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To: gitmo
Sarcasm is best used in face-to-face conversation and doesn't translate well digitally. I've learned that most of my sarcastic comments on this board go right over FReeper heads.

21 posted on 05/31/2024 2:29:02 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: rlmorel
The robot is Marvin, a perpetually depressed robot. Deep Thought was a lot bigger.


22 posted on 05/31/2024 2:34:33 PM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: rlmorel

mmmmm, Zoooey...


23 posted on 05/31/2024 3:25:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: gitmo
Three other problems:

1) More and more AI content will end up on the internet that even the AI won't be able to distinguish from human-generated. It will be like the snake eating its own tail.

2) Bot armies filling the internet with wrong info to tweak the AI into believing falsities.

3) Human intermediaries between AI interfaces and the AI so that certain questions can't be asked and certain answers won't be provided.

24 posted on 05/31/2024 3:40:35 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

You are correct.

One thing that might happen is rival AI vendors escalating a war of BS attempting to poison, and thereby discredit, their rivals’ AIs.


25 posted on 05/31/2024 3:46:26 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Not too long from now AI will tell us that the best political leader in history was a failed German painter and WWI veteran.


26 posted on 05/31/2024 3:54:52 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: Feynman

“Sarcasm is ridiculously hard to detect”

Proven true every single day here on FR.


27 posted on 05/31/2024 4:06:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Feynman

Sarcasm is ridiculously hard to detect

What about dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire?


28 posted on 05/31/2024 4:08:51 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Paladin2

It’s all lost on me. I tend to take everything pretty literally.


29 posted on 05/31/2024 4:12:00 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: jmcenanly

Of course you’re correct, I was thinking of Alan Rickman’s voice coming out of that depressed robot!

I really enjoyed the book, but the movie was kind of…Eh… But that depressed voice made it all worthwhile watching it!


30 posted on 05/31/2024 5:13:01 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: dfwgator

‘E was vicious...


31 posted on 05/31/2024 6:03:23 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

...but fair.


32 posted on 05/31/2024 6:30:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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