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RE: Is Advanced Artificial Intelligence Struggling to Interpret Sarcasm & Puns?
Interesting. I had not heard about this ban but it does raise some questions.
Interesting. I had not heard about this ban but it does raise some questions.
North Korea performed a similar ban on sarcasm earlier this year I believe. While much of their intent is likely government sponsored censorship, it also possibly plays into how the AI performs speech-to-text interpretations from surveillance data. If the population uses sarcasm, it becomes more difficult to employ text filters to the conversations they log and transcribe. So they need to make sure if someone says "Oh yeah, go take a hike!" that they mean literally, "go hike that hill" - instead of as an insult (ie. "leave me alone"). I was thinking, it might just be about economics and creating efficiencies in the surveillance processes (minimizing the potential for bad intel where irony/sarcasm was the source and not literal intention). Strange new world.