CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time 148
blee37 writes "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a web-scraping AI program that never dies. It runs continuously, extracting information from the web and using that information to learn more about the English language. The idea is for a never ending learner like this to one day be able to become conversant in the English language." It's not that the program couldn't stop running; the idea is that there's no fixed end-point. Rather, its progress in categorizing complex word relationships is the object of the research. See also CMU's "Read the Web" research project site.
Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
What happens when it discovers lolcats?
It could be worse (Score:2, Funny)
It could be scraping SMS messages.
On the up-side, at least then it would learn teen-speak.
Will be this article read by that program? (Score:5, Funny)
lolwut? (Score:4, Funny)
Why do I get the feeling that the bot's first words are going to be OMGWTFBBQ?
while (1) (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, I've coded an infinite loop a few times, how come I never made the headlines on Slashdot?
Re:do... (Score:5, Funny)
I think I see the problem with their code.
All they've done is reproduce the typical office worker. It just sits around and surfs the net all day, without coming back with an answer.
The quality of the teachers is important (Score:2, Funny)
I guess bucket didn't get any choice where to go to school either.
Wikipedia (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Uh oh... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh FFS, I just got RickRolled on Slashdot. >_
Re:Uh oh... (Score:3, Funny)