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TomSwirly t1_iz12jks wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Google says they have made a significant advance in allowing humans to communicate with robots using natural language, and claim an "order of magnitude" increase in capabilities over previous approaches. by lughnasadh

> Most people are below average, that's how averages tend to distribute.

Mathematician here. No, this is not how averages work.

It depends entirely on the shape of the distribution. In a perfect normal curve, half the population is below and half above the average, otherwise it depends on which direction the distribution is skewed.

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