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Scunthorpe prob [1]. Apparently they couldn't just unleash a model to fix this [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2018/08/31/scunthorpe-problem-why-a...



If only there existed some tool that understood language deeper than substrings!

(That second link describing how AI can't understand language well enough to solve the problem predates GPT-3 by 2 years)


I never heard of the name of that problem and now I will never forget it! Thank you!

I'm actually on a 3 day Facebook ban because I posted a very legit medical NIH link that looked quite innocent (despite dealing with sexual organs- it was an article about a case of urethral intercourse, which I was including to demonstrate how little people, or perhaps just Americans, seem to understand human anatomy) and unbeknownst to me, the preview card picked a closeup of some kind of vaginal surgery to feature, and that resulted in an instaban. Fffffuuuuuuuuu

It was basically the visual version of this




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