Re: One word: DUH!
It worries me sometimes that there is still an attitude that we can create understanding if we just throw more statistics at it. Simply put, the questions of meaning and what constitutes it have been part of philosophy for a long time and they will not be solved by larger sets of language data (also why automatic translation of idiomatic language is likely to fail) because they rely on understanding.
Those big questions haven't changed and they have not been solved. My view is that we're not going to answer these questions without a GAI, which is a little further down the road than working fusion power, and once we have created one of those making chatbots slightly better will be the last of our concerns.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
