For or Against an argument analyses program?

JulesKorngold

We already have chatbots used on this site.

Factfinder

Please explain the validity behind either argument.

ZeusAres42

This was posted by me 2 or more years ago.

MayCaesar

If it is still relevant, let me just say that, for getting back into coding, taking on a machine learning problem that the best minds of the world have not been able to solve yet is not a great idea. No one has come up with a better way to create a mathematical representation of human language than to train an AI with transformer architecture on human-written texts, and that requires the computational resources that are only available to a handful of organizations in the world, and the representation still leaves a lot to be desired.

A better project would be the programming implementation of mathematical logic. If you know formal logic a little bit, then that is a very feasible project. Then you can see if you can use one of the existing NLP models to read through your implementation and try to translate text arguments to formal logic. I am skeptical that it would work, but it is worth a shot.

I am working on an interesting project right now (a side gig, although I hope to achieve publishable results) where I train a machine learning model to predict the regrowth dynamics of damaged flora from pictures of the environment taken by amateur nature enthusiasts. I would say that the complexity of this project is much lower than what you suggested, and I have been doing some kind of coding pretty much my whole life. Not the level of projects you want to take on when learning.