Google Brain-trained artificial intelligence that writes Wikipedia-like articles via ‘extractive summarization’ struggles to replicate human writing

Briefing

Google Brain-trained artificial intelligence that writes Wikipedia-like articles via 'extractive summarization' struggles to replicate human writing

February 28, 2018

Briefing

  • Text Summarizing AI – Google’s machine learning lab, Google Brain, published paper at Cornell University Library, documenting how Google trained artificial intelligence (AI) to write Wikipedia-like articles
  • Extractive Summarization – Takes top ten websites or reference links on topic, ranking paragraphs and combining them into one article, with sentences further shortened to create summary
  • Humans vs AI – Although better than predecessors, Google Brain's AI still struggles to compete with creative human writing
  • Next Step – Design models and hardware that support longer input sequences

Accelerator

Sector

Information Technology, Media and Entertainment

Organization

Google Inc.

Source

Original Publication Date

February 15, 2018

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