https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1806.01946/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17267141urn:hackerpapers:mention:1806.01946:17267141Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:38:18 GMT<p>Chatbots proposed to solve a problem that current technology is bad at: understanding natural language. Very few experts claimed that algorithms could master the combinatorics of natural language beyond a few very narrow domains. On top of the technical risk, the voice and chat UX does not give a lot of visibility to users, as this post points out. What happened was: algorithmic advances in other areas lead to analogous reasoning by non-experts whose self-promotion aligned with the media&#x27;s need for something new, big and understandable. And then it failed. The irony, of course, is that…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1806.01946/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI