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TheOtherDave comments on Asking Precise Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: paulfchristiano 03 January 2011 08:48AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 03 January 2011 03:09:24PM 1 point [-]

METEOR is intended precisely to specify a meaning of "translate" that maps non-horribly to human intuitions about it. It's imperfect, granted, but WrongBot is not ignoring the problem.

An AI capable of embedding something into text that cleverly hacks human minds ought be able to understand vague requests, and ought not need humans to pose it questions in the first place.