But what if I like political humor?
And recognizing video of a dog falling in a toilet doesn't seem like an
easy
problem to me.
But let's simplify the problem. Is it possible to write a text-only joke
detector? Exactly what makes a joke funny?
Suppose we take thousands of jokes with various ratings for degrees of
funniness and feed it to a machine learning algorithm. Ignore the fact
for
now that a joke isn't funny the second time you hear it. What features
are
you looking for? What features make a joke funny? Can you even tell me
why a
particular joke is funny or not funny? What qualities of "bad AGI poetry"
did
you use to pick the ones to post on your blog, and could you have written
a
program to do it?
If this is narrow AI, why hasn't somebody done this 20 years ago?
Matt, I'm not saying it's easy!!!! "Narrow AI" does not imply "easy"!!!
Go may be susceptible to a narrow AI approach, but it hasn't been cracked
yet...
Similarly, efficient numerical analysis (e.g. solving partial differential
equations) does not require AGI but it is certainly not easy, and there are
problems in the numerical analysis of PDE's that have not been solved today
but will be solved 10 years from now...
My intuition is that recognizing funny poetry will be less easily
susceptible to a narrow AI approach than recognizing funny pictures...
-- Ben
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