If humans can’t identify sarcasm, why would you expect AI to?
It’s like expecting AI to read handwriting, when people can’t even do that 100% of the time.
It’s like expecting AI to read handwriting, when people can’t even do that 100% of the time.
Good computer chess play is based on a deterministic tree walking algorithm, something that’s been clearly in computers’ wheelhouse since forever.
Good computer go play is based on neural pattern recognition, which is also (probably) what human sarcasm detection is based on.
Conversation doesn't work like that, and takes a vast amount of information to understand whether someone is being sarcastic.
Every tree search algorithm needs a guiding heuristic, and that's what AlphaGo replaces with a neural network.
So both DeepBlue and AlphaGo are fairly described as being based on tree search.
It’s like expecting AI to sum up 1000 integers without errors, when people can’t even do that 100% of the time.
And there are some things that are relatively easy for humans to do, like communicate with natural language. Sarcasm falls into the later category. This is because human understanding is heavily social and conceptual.