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AI hype article

[woodpijn]

"In fact the apparent coherence of the interview [with GPT-2] stemmed from (a) the enormous corpus of human writing that the system drew from and (b) the filtering for coherence that was done by the human journalist."

(b), fair enough. But (a) isn't an objection - it's the essence of what natural-language AI is achieving and what any intelligence is doing. The "apparent coherence" of Gary Marcus's hype-busting article stems from the enormous corpus of human writing and speech he's drawn from over the course of his life.