Great. Just what we need. A trained monkey that summarizes the summarizers.
According the the article, "The generated sentences are taken from the earlier extraction phase and aren’t built from scratch, which explains why the structure is pretty repetitive and stiff."
Mohammad Saleh, co-author of the paper and a software engineer in Google AI’s team, told The Register: “The extraction phase is a bottleneck that determines which parts of the input will be fed to the abstraction stage. Ideally, we would like to pass all the input from reference documents.
“Designing models and hardware that can support longer input sequences is currently an active area of research that can alleviate these limitations.
We are still a very long way off from effective text summarization or generation. And while the Google Brain project is rather interesting, it would probably be unwise to use a system like this to automatically generate Wikipedia entries. For now, anyway.
Also, since it relies on the popularity of the first ten websites on the internet for any particular topic, if those sites aren’t particularly credible, the resulting handiwork probably won’t be very accurate either.
I'm sure they've heard of those technologies. I'm sure they use them.
I'm also pretty certain they don't have the resources to equip every school with signal jammers and cameras - and staff to operate them. This is the cheap option.
How cheap it is compared to the business and productivity lost is unknown : )
Reminiscent of the arguments for putting pollution filtering on fossil fuel burning power plants vs. capturing pollution from every individual personal motor vehicle.
Ha ha ha. What do you think will happen when Uber has put many of the cab companies out of business? That's right, they will jack up the prices to the level of current taxi prices. Leaving you in a car with substandard insurance, drivers without criminal background checks, no ability to get a ride in "less desirable" areas, and no ability to get rides at hours that the Uber drivers deem undesirable. At the same or greater price than current taxis.
Right now taxis provide a service that has been regulated by local governments for scores of years. It's close to being a ****public utility****. They run 24 hours a day, and all areas of a city have a chance to get service. It's a system that works remarkably well, considering the complexity and logistics that are required.
In addition, taxi companies maintain the cars, do criminal background checks on drivers, and provide sufficient insurance in case of injury in an accident, and require drivers to take rides - like crappy little grocery store rides a few blocks from your house - that many drivers would not take if they had a choice.
Uber and Lyft are "disruptive technology" that, through the magic of tons of venture capital - and shoving most of the uncompensated cost of operation onto the driver - have been able to grab up to a 1/4 of the taxi business.
Local US governments have been regulating taxi companies with strict rules for generations, but suddenly are strangely unwilling to regulate these "ridesharing" businesses.
When you are unable to get a ride to work from a "bad area" of town, at an inconvenient time, or have to pay twice or three times the usual rate for a ride - don't blame the taxi companies. Blame customers' shortsightedness, and local government's failure to see the longer term picture.
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Great. Just what we need. A trained monkey that summarizes the summarizers.
According the the article, "The generated sentences are taken from the earlier extraction phase and aren’t built from scratch, which explains why the structure is pretty repetitive and stiff."
Mohammad Saleh, co-author of the paper and a software engineer in Google AI’s team, told The Register: “The extraction phase is a bottleneck that determines which parts of the input will be fed to the abstraction stage. Ideally, we would like to pass all the input from reference documents. “Designing models and hardware that can support longer input sequences is currently an active area of research that can alleviate these limitations. We are still a very long way off from effective text summarization or generation. And while the Google Brain project is rather interesting, it would probably be unwise to use a system like this to automatically generate Wikipedia entries. For now, anyway.
Also, since it relies on the popularity of the first ten websites on the internet for any particular topic, if those sites aren’t particularly credible, the resulting handiwork probably won’t be very accurate either.
My faux outrage is entirely synthetic.
I'm sure they've heard of those technologies. I'm sure they use them.
I'm also pretty certain they don't have the resources to equip every school with signal jammers and cameras - and staff to operate them. This is the cheap option.
How cheap it is compared to the business and productivity lost is unknown : )
Reminiscent of the arguments for putting pollution filtering on fossil fuel burning power plants vs. capturing pollution from every individual personal motor vehicle.
Ha ha ha. What do you think will happen when Uber has put many of the cab companies out of business? That's right, they will jack up the prices to the level of current taxi prices. Leaving you in a car with substandard insurance, drivers without criminal background checks, no ability to get a ride in "less desirable" areas, and no ability to get rides at hours that the Uber drivers deem undesirable. At the same or greater price than current taxis.
Right now taxis provide a service that has been regulated by local governments for scores of years. It's close to being a ****public utility****. They run 24 hours a day, and all areas of a city have a chance to get service. It's a system that works remarkably well, considering the complexity and logistics that are required.
In addition, taxi companies maintain the cars, do criminal background checks on drivers, and provide sufficient insurance in case of injury in an accident, and require drivers to take rides - like crappy little grocery store rides a few blocks from your house - that many drivers would not take if they had a choice.
Uber and Lyft are "disruptive technology" that, through the magic of tons of venture capital - and shoving most of the uncompensated cost of operation onto the driver - have been able to grab up to a 1/4 of the taxi business.
Local US governments have been regulating taxi companies with strict rules for generations, but suddenly are strangely unwilling to regulate these "ridesharing" businesses.
When you are unable to get a ride to work from a "bad area" of town, at an inconvenient time, or have to pay twice or three times the usual rate for a ride - don't blame the taxi companies. Blame customers' shortsightedness, and local government's failure to see the longer term picture.
You, for one, welcome your new Uberlords!
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