That doesn’t seem to be an exact counterexample because that’s a case where the plateau occurred well below normal human levels. But independently that’s a very disturbing story. I didn’t realize that speech recognition was so mired.
It’s not that bad when you consider that humans employ error-correction heuristics that rely on deep syntactic and semantic clues. The existing technology probably does the best job possible without such heuristics, and automating them will be possible only if the language-processing circuits in the human brain are reverse-engineered fully—a problem that’s still far beyond our present capabilities, whose solution probably wouldn’t be too far from full-blown strong AI.
That doesn’t seem to be an exact counterexample because that’s a case where the plateau occurred well below normal human levels. But independently that’s a very disturbing story. I didn’t realize that speech recognition was so mired.
It’s not that bad when you consider that humans employ error-correction heuristics that rely on deep syntactic and semantic clues. The existing technology probably does the best job possible without such heuristics, and automating them will be possible only if the language-processing circuits in the human brain are reverse-engineered fully—a problem that’s still far beyond our present capabilities, whose solution probably wouldn’t be too far from full-blown strong AI.