This result seems not surprising. Finding the most common result in a large dataset is explicitly what computers are good at, and people are not good at. That’s kind of why we invented computers. There is little value in knowing that 70% of the time the sentence is
“Now, the developer is planning for phase 2 trials” and not
“Phase 2 trials are the next step”
“Now the developer, [name], is planning phase 2 trials”
“Now trials enter phase 2″
Or any other variations. Our understanding is at the sentence level, and based on a tiny and biased sampling from the possible set of source data.
Agreed, while at the same time I’m very glad that this research has been done, and wish to congratulate those involved accordingly. A lot of good research is obvious in retrospect, but there were enough smart people who prior to this experiment displayed contradictory opinions that this result is not trivial. As such, kudos on the great work!
This result seems not surprising. Finding the most common result in a large dataset is explicitly what computers are good at, and people are not good at. That’s kind of why we invented computers. There is little value in knowing that 70% of the time the sentence is “Now, the developer is planning for phase 2 trials” and not “Phase 2 trials are the next step” “Now the developer, [name], is planning phase 2 trials” “Now trials enter phase 2″ Or any other variations. Our understanding is at the sentence level, and based on a tiny and biased sampling from the possible set of source data.
Agreed, while at the same time I’m very glad that this research has been done, and wish to congratulate those involved accordingly. A lot of good research is obvious in retrospect, but there were enough smart people who prior to this experiment displayed contradictory opinions that this result is not trivial. As such, kudos on the great work!