AcquiredThe only way that you could possibly do that is if whatever force is acting on the data actually understands what it means because you're losing information, going down to something smaller, and then recreating the original thing. It's like you're a kid in school. You learn something in school. You read a long textbook. You store the information in your memory, then you take a test to see if you really understood the material.
“It's like you're a kid in school.”
The only way that you could possibly do that is if whatever force is acting on the data actually understands what it means because you're losing information, going down to something smaller, and then recreating the original thing. It's like you're a kid in school. You learn something in school. You read a long textbook. You store the information in your memory, then you take a test to see if you really understood the material.
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Brilliant analogy explaining data compression as understanding - makes a complex AI concept accessible through the universal school testing metaphor. The logic is compelling and quotable.
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And we've trained it on a corpus of 2,000,000,000,000 words from the Google search index. This thing is so large, it takes it twelve hours to translate a sentence. So the way the DARPA challenge worked in this case was you got a set of sentences on Monday, and then you had to submit your machine translation of those set of sentences by Friday.
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