The original Deepmind paper [1] is based on a really smart idea. Algorithmic development relies on measuring the performance of any proposed algorithm. For reading comprehension, performance is evaluated using Q&A about the corpus. Its difficult to find a large corpus with a comprehensive set of questions about the content.<p>Deepmind is cleverly converting the Daily Mail article summaries into questions by removing a proper noun. For example:<p>Question: Producer X will not press charges against Jeremy Clarkson, his lawyer says.<p>Answer: Oisin Tymon<p>They are using the Daily Mail corpus to develop their algorithm, and that's smart. They aren't relying on it as an important source of information. Maybe all you guys with the dismissive comments have a better idea?<p>[1] <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03340.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03340.pdf</a><p>EDIT: Thanks Otik, reworded the opening sentance
Another use for the Daily Mail: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA</a>
I know why they did it, because its the lowest common denominator for celeb gossip.<p>However its shit for science, overtly paedophilic, and the only western news sit that seems to have a special section devoted to curating and promoting ISIS propaganda.<p>Why is it bad? because if you are looking for facts, the daily mail is a bad source.<p>If you are looking for natural language, its a good source, however its full of nuanced racism, sexism, classism & basically everything else thats wrong with britian.<p>It'll be good at describing house prices though.
Somewhat worrying that they are feeding DeepMind a diet of DailyMail articles!<p>Maybe this is why Skynet turned rogue. Reading daily trash about celebrities and body image dysmorphia inducing trash, is enough to make anyone go mad.
Haha, absolutely classic!
What will it end up comprehending?
David Beckham's love life?
How brown skinned foreigners are taking all the jobs?
Etc.
Great, so we will have a racist and reactionary AI that thinks celebrity gossip and immigrant bashing are the most important things in the world.<p>For the non-AIs reading this thread, I highly reccomend <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kitten-block/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kitten-block/</a> a plugin that replaces every daily mail link with a random picture from kittens & tea, in case you mistakenly click on a daily mail link.<p>Snark aside, the paper is really cool though :)