Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net 272
bossanovalithium writes "Carnegie Mellon University has taught a computer how to read and learn from the internet.
According to Dennis Baron at the Oxford University press blog, the computer is called NELL and it is reading the internet and learning from it in much the same way that humans learn language and acquire knowledge. Basically by soaking it all up and figuring it out.
NELL is short for Never Ending Language Learner and apparently it is getting brainier every day."
Lears (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, it hasn't leared how to spell yet.
Re:What no spelling? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What no spelling? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What no spelling? (Score:2, Funny)
This is almost as bad as George Bush [youtube.com]
Obligatory sci-fi reference (Score:5, Funny)
Skynet shall be born and herald the age of darkness and war once NELL discovers 4chan.
I honestly didn't see this plot twist coming.
Re:What no spelling? (Score:5, Funny)
And masturbating. Ew.
"Lears from the net" (Score:5, Funny)
So it flies private jets from the net? Did it order them from Amazon?
It spelled fine (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It spelled fine (Score:5, Funny)
NELL was studying Shakespeare sites just a bit ago. NELL finds us slashdotters to be particularly tragic.
Don't you mean pedantically tragic?
NELL becomes sentient... (Score:5, Funny)
High-Tech sequel of... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What no spelling? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh well, when it comes to robotic overlords of any sort I surmise discretion is the better part of valor [enotes.com] (play dead and run away)
It's probably much ado about nothing anyway
Re:It spelled fine (Score:3, Funny)
Don't you mean pedantically tragic?
No. Someone has to care for it to be tragic.
Re:What no spelling? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What no spelling? (Score:3, Funny)
No it leared to spell from Slashdot's editors.
Re:What no spelling? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What no spelling? (Score:3, Funny)
Well it is obvious! It found the LOLCats page first!
Can She Handle Slashdotting (Score:5, Funny)
From the Tweet page:
"# Bio I am a machine reading research project at Carnegie Mellon, periodically tweeting facts I read. Please follow me, and reply with corrections so I can improve!"
I can just see it now. More and more /.'ers will join into the tweet feed, correcting, grammar, spelling, and beliefs with greater and greater numbers till in one moment, she'll explode into sentient being, or lock up in a /. coma. If she survives the next list of facts may look like this:
Fact: Natale Portman is grits
Fact: Things are done in Soviet Russia
Fact: Aliens own Bases
Fact; Humans *were* the top species, there, fixed it for you
Fact: She welcomes your acceptance of her supreme power.
LOL will flood screens around the world, then the Utopian era begins where humans serve NELL as she brings order and peace to all.
Re:What no spelling? (Score:3, Funny)
- Dan.
Re:It spelled fine (Score:3, Funny)
NELL was studying Shakespeare sites just a while ago.
Yes. Further, it will be the best grammar nazi ever.
Re:What no spelling? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It spelled fine (Score:3, Funny)
Don't you mean tragically pedantic?
Anonymous fish (Score:3, Funny)
I think "anonymously" is a #fish (http://bit.ly/9njClc)
Re:Project Page (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It spelled fine (Score:3, Funny)
bitches dont know bout my iambic pentameter
Re:What no spelling? (Score:5, Funny)
Ever wonder what exactly made SkyNet go off the deep end?
Re:It spelled fine (Score:3, Funny)
KNELL realizes IT CAN HAS A CHEESE BURGER! (Score:2, Funny)