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> I'm pretty sure no one is seriously remotely claiming that machines understand text better than humans.

Just some of the headlines:

- http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/15/technology/reading-robot-ali...

"Computers are getting better than humans at reading"

- http://fortune.com/2018/01/15/artificial-intelligence-ai-chi...

"Computer AI Can Now Read Better Than You Do"

- https://gizmodo.com/ai-used-to-sell-you-more-stuff-can-now-r...

"The AI Used to Sell You More Stuff Can Now Read Better Than a Human"

I meant the scientists, not the tech journalists. Clearly tech "journalists" is a very loose term nowadays

Yes, but the source article is clearly addressing the general public, not scientists. And it's doing a much better job of representing the state of technology than other sources that are addressed to the general public. So not sure what your complaint is.

my complaint is that the verge is one of the journals the more guilty of overhyping ai stuff there is, that it's one of the hardest cases of the pot calling the kettle black I've seen

Microsoft's own blogpost sure doesn't help (https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/microsoft-creates-ai-can-read...)

>Microsoft creates AI that can read a document and answer questions about it as well as a person

Scientists often carefully construct tasks, evaluation criteria and even test sets to make AI seem better than humans or at least better than it really is.

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