Morendil comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 06 May 2010 10:10:01AM 1 point [-]

The unrecognized death of speech recognition

Interesting thoughts about the limits encountered in the quest for better speech recognition, the implications for probabilistic approaches to AI, and "mispredictions of the future".

What do y'all think?

Comment author: thomblake 06 May 2010 01:18:33PM 0 points [-]

As noted in the comments, artificial natural speech recognition is in the 85-95% range, and human natural speech recognition is also around 95%. I was skeptical of that article when I first read it because it did not even mention how good humans are at it to compare to the machines.