Sogou’s AI backed grammar editor is far from being reasonable

The Chinese tech company Sogou, known for the language input Sogou Pinyin, recently launched its AI English writing assistant, proclaiming a 96.83% accuracy. However, when tested by a reporter from Technode, the software performed less sensible than expected – not only did it keep suggesting correct name spelling as typos, but also it ‘failed’ Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. Armed with artificial intelligence and associated deep-learning technology, grammar assistance programs in place nowadays are still producing less than satisfactory results, due to their innate inability of solving “problems that require common sense”.