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Baidu Releases Open Source Artificial Intelligence Code (thestack.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Chinese web services company Baidu has released a new artificial intelligence software called WARP-CTC. The code is apparently capable of speech recognition, particularly for short segments, that exceeds human capability. The source code uses an approach called 'connectionist temporal classification' and has been released on GitHub.

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  1. Re:"better than human" was achieved in 1994, alrea by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been developing automatic speech recognition systems in the 1990s. Back then, the best performing recognizers were based on Hidden Markov Models, and for "out of context" tasks like "determine whether an individual spoken word from an unknown speaker is 'nine' or 'none'", the automatic recognizers already achieved better recognition rates than humans.

    Sure... but this time they did it with Mandarin instead of English.

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  2. Re:"better than human" was achieved in 1994, alrea by Rob+Lister · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I had no idea they have been that good for that long. In the wild however, they suck. I hope I'm not coming off as super-critical. But it is the fault of humans for trying to make the machine pretend to be human.

    I want to start this by saying that the following is decidedly NOT satire.

    It is most probably the manner in which they are used that sucks the most. But maybe it is my own personal bias that is really to blame. Which is to say: I am prejudice against AI programmers.

    When a robot answers the phone, I get miffed. I can't help it. When they ask [i]whatever[/i] I answer [i]curtly[/i] because I think that it is beneath me to answer politely. And to be honest, I'm right! I'm not trying to start a class war here (okay, I said no satire but there it is).

    My belabored point is that I DO.NOT.WANT a machine to simulate politeness; it takes a human to pretend correctly. A machine has no conception of remorse or any other emotion so to simulate a human is ... well, it is insulting. I don't want to be a hater. And the machine doesn't care that I'm a hater. And I don't hate the machine, I hate the humans behind it that make it pretend to be human. Best:

    Say the name of your product [beep] Say the issue with your product [beep]

    And the voice that says that should not try to be passin'.

    Where am I going with this? Let those that respond decide.