2019-09 Announcing Two New Natural Language Dialog Datasets

Today’s digital assistants are expected to complete tasks and return personalized results across many subjects, such as movie listings, restaurant reservations and travel plans. However, despite tremendous progress in recent years, they have not yet reached human-level understanding. This is due, in part, to the lack of quality training data that accurately reflects the way people express their needs and preferences to a digital assistant. This is because the limitations of such systems bias what we say—we want to be understood, and so tailor our words to what we expect a digital assistant to understand. In other words, the conversations we might observe with today’s digital assistants don’t reach the level of dialog complexity we need to model human-level understanding.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/09/announcing-two-new-natural-language.html