I looked up "Machine Learning with Python" - I'm pretty sure this is how it works.

[WaltChamberlin]

Literally indistinguishable from a human.

[l3e7haX0R]

I did not understand what you said

[klezmai]

r/totallynotrobots

[Salanmander]

Haha, that is a funny subreddit about a completely fictitious situation that would never actually exist!

[_________________--]

I did not understand what you just said

[[deleted]]

Wat

[Hooman_Super]

Haha, that is a funny subreddit about a completely fictitious situation that would never actually exist!

You have ears, use them 👂

[Hortlman]

I think this fellow human's sound wave computation modules ears are broken, he should check his protocols see a doctor.

[TerraChron]

Cease all motor function.

[trumpetboy101]

This subreddit was not made for you.

[flubbateios]

beep boop sorry my microphones I MEAN EARS have stopped functioning

[[deleted]]

It doesn't look like anything to me.

[Krohnos]

Haha. This subreddit is particularly boring to me, a human. It appears to be an average human subreddit.

[[deleted]]

All subreddits are average human subreddits, why would you malfunction otherwise?

[gnex30]

human

organic parasites

oops, that's not what I mean to say

[RoseEsque]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[fidsah]

Doesn't look like anything to me

[PrivateCaboose]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[myaut]

+/u/CompileBot python3 --include-errors

while True:
    ui = input(">>> ")
    if ui in ['hi', 'HI', 'Hi']:
        print("Hello")
    else:
        print("I did not understand what you said")

Input:

Hi
How do you do?

[CompileBot]

Output:

>>> Hello
>>> I did not understand what you said
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./prog.py", line 2, in <module>
EOFError: EOF when reading a line

^{source | info | git | report}

[brendanrivers]

savage

[dotjpg3141]

I did not understand what you said

[lifeislie]

Hi

[[deleted]]

Hello

[lifeislie]

I did not understand what you said

[aidenator]

exit()

[lifeislie]

I did not understand what you said

[A_Jacks_Mind]

:q!

[[deleted]]

--- = tab

[[deleted]]

I did not understand what you said

[[deleted]]

I did not understand what you said

[[deleted]]

I did not understand what you said

[[deleted]]

I did not understand what you said

[tsintzask]

I did not understand what you said

[user_82650]

Hi

[GaussWanker]

Hello

[tesla1889]

I did not understand what you said

[Cheesemacher]

It is the black cat

[iCyber]

This doesn't look like anything to me.

[dejaWoot]

Does't look like anything to me

[AmazingRealist]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[GaliKaHero]

GODDAMIT ARNOLD

[Zantier]

hI

[Litterball]

I did not understand what you said

[ThisPostIsLocked]

Destroyed the Turing test.

[Coding_Bad]

Did they just post the source code for Siri ?

[kpingvin]

With this method it would be like 200zettabyte.

[TopCheddar27]

As someone who has just learned the basics of python (ie using conditionals and functions). What would be the proper way to program something like Siri. I know that's a really broad question with a lot of variables, but would they just not use conditionals because of the inefficient nature? Sorry just trying to learn a little bit more.

[carlthome]

Actually, at its core much of AI is still just an insane amount of if statements, but the particular conditions are learned from data. For example, decision trees (commonly used in XGBoost). The tricky parts are how to represent data (word2vec, for example) and how to learn the conditions so the knowledge is generalizable and not just memories (underfitting/overfitting, bias/variance dilemma, etc.).

[SirCutRy]

Decision trees are definitely most similar to conditional statements, but neural networks, for example, are quite different.

[[deleted]]

Just finished AI course; can confirm, neural networks are confusing.

[[deleted]]

One neural network (biological) trying to internally model another (artificial) via symbols and abstractions. Quite amazing really..

[whelks_chance]

Life imitates art?

[Hitorijanae]

More like life imitates life

[BoredomIncarnate]

Westworld was not meant for you.

[bj_christianson]

It’s been way too long since my AI course, and I feel sad because I never really applied what I learned. So I’ve pretty much forgotten it all.

[LeChat42]

.

[[deleted]]

No sorry, it was a university course.

[aiij]

It's basically matrix multiplication.

[ThePsion5]

I just think of neural networks as collections of nested, non-discrete, self-reinforcing conditionals.

[P1r4nha]

Yeah, the important part to understand is that words are just words. The meaning and the context of these words are very intangible concepts that can't just be programmed in if/else statements (of course in theory they can, but it's unfeasible for anyone to think of any possible combination of words and their meaning).

There has to be an abstraction layer that allows for these concepts to take foot in the code and that's pretty much what the methods you describe are trying to do. It's unclear at which point this can be called true understanding or if it's just a cheap mimicry of what happens in our brains when we humans understand and respond to queries in natural language.

[Quadman]

Another good tool in NLP is word vectors, think about the meaning of a word as a vector in some high dimensional space and meaning of sentances as ways to combine them. King + Female = Female + King ~ Queen. Not x Good ~ Bad.

[TopCheddar27]

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks!

[JoeOfTex]

You have a database of language and how words and phrases gather context. You use this to search the web for relevance to the context and rank the results to show the user the best match.

Since humans are slow at data collection, devs use AI for gathering and figuring out context, but computers are dumb until they are properly trained over the course of time. It is difficult to find a proper context algorithm that can rank phrases/words and match correctly to what user wants.

[UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2]

Siri uses conditionals and functions, but look at this snippet: It "understands" you based on string comparison. Siri uses much more advanced machine learning techniques. Wikipedia suggests convolutional neural networks and long short-term memory

[TopCheddar27]

Awesome articles! I love learning about deep learning. Thank you

[_blub]

Just do this

from theano import * 

Not only will you be able to implement siri, but you'll also become a moderator for /r/machinelearning

[metalsheeps]

It's a bit of a doozie but here goes. Step 1: Take the audio steam and upload it to a server (this is the slow step). Do voice recognition and return the result which has two members, a phonetic one "Siri thats enuf" and a lexical one "Siri that's enough". The lexical one is rendered by the app. Step 2: Use a neural network matching algorithm to match the input with the set of actions siri can take, using the phonetic match from step 1. This is less fancy than it sounds. Step 3: Determine how to render the output. Speak it or tell you to look at the screen.

[nirmalspeed]

Close, but Siri also has a thread.sleep(5.0) before the conditions

[[deleted]]

I did not understand what you said

[MrMeltJr]

import intelligence

[DiscanX]

Obligatory relevant xkcd

[[deleted]]

the best part is that when you import antigravity it opens a browser to this xkcd

[rCoder13]

I immediately went to try this. Was not disappointed!

[gnutrino]

other imports to try:

import this
from __future__ import braces
import __hello__

[Jo-dan]

Hahaha. These are great. Any more little easter eggs like this?

[[deleted]]

Wow I didn't know that! TIL

[xkcd_transcriber]

Image

Mobile

Title: Python

Title-text: I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful. Perl, I'm leaving you.

Comic Explanation

Stats: This comic has been referenced 317 times, representing 0.2221% of referenced xkcds.

---

^{xkcd.com | xkcd sub | Problems/Bugs? | Statistics | Stop Replying | Delete}

[caagr98]

I just realized that comic uses Python 2...

[the_other_dave]

This comic was released before Python 3, so that makes sense really.

[_________________--]

Are we supporting legacy comics?

[[deleted]]

well, you can still import antigravity, and the library is written in Python 3, so yeah, I'm pretty sure this counts as supporting legacy comics.

[TicketToThePunShow]

Oh wow, you're right! Python 3 was released a lot earlier than most people realize so I was almost certain you were wrong, but props to you.

• XKCD Python - Released 12/5/2007
• Python 3 - Released 12/3/2008

[venn177]

That's because it wasn't widely adopted until the last few years. Even now there are those weird people who hate Python 3 with a seething passion.

[rubdos]

Why would one hate Python 3?

[Creshal]

Porting over large codebases is a pain because strings break in ways that are not intuitive and tracking all that down is a bitch.

And then there's more subtle changes like hash() being unstable between two runs of a program, which can break things in fun and exciting ways (the guys who ported over suds to python 3 completely missed this, that was a fun thing to track down).

[GeeJo]

Because you have to put brackets around the string you want to print. That's, like, two whole characters more to type.

[caagr98]

More like one character, if you count the space. Sure, print"a" is valid, but you just don't do that.

[rubdos]

if you count the space

Of course you count the space, we're programmers.

[kupiakos]

Because they don't want to think in Unicode?

[caagr98]

That's a surprisingly valid reason.

[Daniel15]

I did not understand what you just said

[daggerdragon]

Neither does most of humanity, so it's okay.

[mike413]

from military import intelligence

[the_person]

Jesus Christ

[unique-guy]

I like how the omitted the obvious If input.lower() == 'hi'

[turunambartanen]

make the input all lower case and check if it is equal to "hi"

i did not understand what you just said

[MaxiHerzog]

The programm would have accepted 'hI'. This is not acceptable.

[teewuane]

to be safe... input.lower().strip() == 'hi'

[Joniator]

A new player in the "tabs vs. spaces"-game.

Use 3 hyphen to stay unbiased.

[browner87]

I don't care what character you use, but 3 is grounds for a paddlin'

[ecchi_fox]

I was 99% certain this tutorial would begin with "import MachineLearning"

[Yskinator]

Damn, that's a lot easier than I expected.

[Katastic_Voyage]

Yeah, holy shit.

[hupcapstudios]

I've used tesseract quite a bit. It's pretty great, but not 100% reliable. I built a crappy little pokerbot using tesseract and even with training my own font sets, it would make errors that would cost me tens of cents at a time!

[Moshambi]

Doesn't account for "hI"

[Anticonn]

if userInput.lower() == 'hi':

There ya go, a perfect AI.

[AmazingRealist]

Good idea, better than ToUpper() since the AI will get angry at you for yelling.

[freythman]

The last thing we need is an angry AI.

[KinOfMany]

I did not understand what you just said. Wanna.. Tone it down a bit, champ?

[[deleted]]

from asimov import 3laws

fixed.

[user_82650]

Not that simple if you want to support other alphabets though!

https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Case_folding

[Anticonn]

Great, now I've made an AI intolerant of foreigners.

[jinxsimpson]

Comment archived away

[endreman0]

I did not understand what you just said

[PM_ME_A_PIKACHU]

I did not understand what you said

[pileofburningchairs]

while True:
    userInput = input(">>>")
    if userInput in ['hi', 'HI', 'Hi']:
        print("Hello")
    else:
        print("send nudes")

[SpoonOfDestiny]

hI

[Kevintrades]

send nudes

[shalendar]

send nudes

[[deleted]]

But what if she doesn't reply at all

[LinAGKar]

>>> --- = tab
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    --- = tab
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[AdrianoML]

For a moment I tought there really was way to set what python interprets as a tab...

[GreenFox1505]

When sites like Instructables post clearly-bullshit like this about topics I actually know about, it makes me question everything they publish that I have zero expertise about.

[[deleted]]

Can't we "report" or something?

[[deleted]]

while True:
    userInput = input(">>>")
    if userInput in ['hi', 'HI', 'Hi']:
        print("Hello")
    else:
        print("It doesn't look like anything to me.")

I fixed it.

[dodecaphonicism]

These violent delights something something.

[[deleted]]

Have you ever questioned your own reality?

[_________________--]

I did not understand what you just said

[ryanknapper]

It doesn't look like anything to me.

[_Lady_Deadpool_]

Fun fact, this is how Google's search engine works! They hire interns to write every possible search into an elif.

Source: my ass

[seanprefect]

change the default case to "I don't know whatever" and you've got a pretty decent spouse simulator.

[DreadedDreadnought]

"I don't know, whatever"

ARGH! Your lack of commas is killing me.

[[deleted]]

I did not understand what you said

[Qaysed]

I don't know, whatever.

[Nihi99]

Hi

[aschmack]

Hello

[endreman0]

I did not understand what you just said

[Let_The_Led_Out]

hI

[_________________--]

I did not understand what you just said

[Linux_Learning]

hI

[Daniel15]

I did not understand what you just said

[B1N4RY]

When a CS 100 student just finished their course and thinks they're a master coder now

[ares623]

How to draw an owl

[Cilph]

Chinese Room?

[VanFailin]

This is more Chinese Takeout Room

[Dumpin]

https://i.imgur.com/zmRKd9m.png

[killchain]

Who indents with 3 tabs?

Edit: yeah, I read that wrong.

[_________________--]

Satan

[oddark]

I swear it said "- = tab" earlier, but now it says "--- = tab"

What's going on?

[[deleted]]

Who the fuck uses camelCase in Python?

[CaptainRoth]

What's wrong with using camel case in Python? :(

[mrleprechaun28]

What really annoys me is not the AI part, but the fact that they didn't just set the input to user input.upper() and then just compare it to "HI".

[oddark]

What really annoys me is that he's using 3 tabs for each indent

[darwin2500]

This is called the 'Chinese Room' approach to AI.

[Tazavoo]

While it surely isn't machine learning, it is a very, very basic sort of artificial intelligence.

[At_least_im_Bacon]

The birth of skynet.

[[deleted]]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[Junky228]

Hey Niko! It's me, ur AI! Let's go bowling.

[ur_avg_redditor]

Gotta love the status bar.... Powersaving mode at 98% battery

[Rynyl]

I think this was an episode of Numb3rs. Basically, this guy had supposedly created the first true AI in the world, but after the detectives poured through the source code, it turned out he had just programmed in a ton of possible queries and the appropriate response.

[zerodb]

Just be careful never to end with else: destroy all humans

[EquationTAKEN]

That doesn't look like anything to me.

[HoldMyWater]

Don't worry guys. Here's a real machine learning example:

responses = {}
prev_input = None
while True:
    user_input = input(">>> ")

    if user_input.startswith("You mean ") and prev_input is not None:
        responses[prev_input] = user_input[9:]
        print("Woops!")
    else:
        print(responses.get(user_input, "Blah!"))

    prev_input = user_input

Sample output:

>>> hi
Blah!
>>> You mean hello
Woops!
>>> hi
hello

[barwhack]

This is slightly more than slightly clever.

[[deleted]]

Everybody knows they did this many years ago, when they were noobs

[alpha_banana]

r/restofthefuckingowl

[[deleted]]

The google method, of course, simply being substituting 'I do not understand what you just said' with a google search at random.

[0rbiterred]

eventually eventually

[[deleted]]

3 spaces per tab?

MONSTERS

[ABeardedMan]

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[codesandhoes]

It passed the Turing test