Exact(19)
But even Norvig didn't see how you could build a machine that could understand stories using deep learning alone.
For Amy Tan's splendid new novel abounds not only with tellers and listeners but with people who truly understand stories and people who preserve them.
Now we would struggle to understand stories such as the following anecdote, relayed to me by the Fatah activist Abu Mustafa.
Back then, Norvig had written a brilliant review of the previous work on getting machines to understand stories, and fully endorsed an approach that built on classical "symbol-manipulation" techniques.
"We believe that a computer that can read and understand stories, can, if given enough example stories from a given culture, 'reverse engineer' the values tacitly held by the culture that produced them," they write.
Giving AIs the ability to read and understand stories may be the most expedient means of enculturing [them] so that they can better integrate themselves into human societies and contribute to our overall wellbeing," they conclude.
Similar(41)
"You've got to have a clear, easy to understand story," said Mark McKinnon, an image-maker for George W. Bush's two presidential campaigns but a professed admirer of Mr. Obama.
Because I understood stories, I understood how people would behave".
Faulkner understood story, but he had such astounding technical skill he could seem to abandon it and no one would care.
The problem is that Ms. Lahiri is a genius, a writer who understands story innately, so she has never had to ask herself what it is that's really grabbed the reader's brain.
Is this because stories we understand are stories we forget?
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com