Just pointed to this, the claims are considerable. A very good conversational model would be a big step forward. Current assistants do poorly except for the simplest requests. I want assistants to be to not only consider context of a question, but to also expand that context during conversation. Thats a big step towards 'general intelligence'. Will be examining this. Comments out there from people that have? More to follow.
Just how big a deal is Google’s new Meena chatbot model?
By Ronald Ashri, Greenshot labs, @Ronald_IStos in Venturebeat
Technology behemoths like Google and Facebook have got us used to, even fatigued by, their never-ending string of impressive announcements of progress in the AI field. Nevertheless, when Google announced that it has built a “conversational agent that can chat about… anything,” even the most jaded amongst us had to pay attention.
Since I work in the field, helping organizations build conversational solutions, I was particularly intrigued. One of the biggest challenges for bots is to handle the infinite possible phrases that a user might say and respond appropriately. A bot that can chat about anything seems like just the thing we would need to solve this challenge. So the question becomes, exactly what impact Google’s new bot, called Meena, will have on organizations looking to deploy conversational AI applications. Have we found the holy grail? Will our bots finally stop saying “I’m sorry, I didn’t quite understand that”? Well, the short answer is that no, we are not quite there yet. Nevertheless, Meena is incredibly impressive and represents a fascinating attempt to solve the problem. In the next few paragraphs, I will summarize what Google did and how this might impact conversational AI in the days, months, and years to come. .... "
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