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But those probability models are really far removed from real world/human experience. No human is going to claim a leopard skin sofa could be an actual leopard for example. Not gonna be even a little confused.

There is just a ton of information and context the computer probability models do not have. They can use all the big data they want, but are capturing only a very thin slice of real world information.




> But those probability models are really far removed from real world/human experience. No human is going to claim a leopard skin sofa could be an actual leopard for example. Not gonna be even a little confused.

Mhm.

When humans see a jeopardy answer looking for the name of an ancient king, they might give the wrong name, because quick, did Hadrian rule before or after Caesar?

If Watson gets it wrong, its answer is something like "What are trousers?".

It seems quite obvious that different things are going on there.




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