Ex Machina2015

Caleb:
Her language abilities... they're incredible. The system is stochastic. Right? It's non-deterministic? At first I thought she was mapping from internal semantic form to syntactic tree-structured and then getting linearised words. But then I started to realise the model was some kind of hybrid.

Nathan:
Caleb.

Caleb:
No?

Nathan:
I understand that you want me to explain how Ava works, but I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be able to do that.

Caleb:
Try me. I'm hot on high-level abstraction.

Nathan:
It's not 'cause I think you're too dumb. It's 'cause I want to have a beer and a conversation with you, not a seminar.

Caleb:
[laughs nervously] Sorry.