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But what is the machine learning to do? It sounds like it could be optimising for sales. I actually mean that quite seriously - a machine learning system needs
by timv 10y ago
But what is the machine learning to do? It sounds like it could be optimising for sales.
I actually mean that quite seriously - a machine learning system needs to have some goal to optimise for, sone way to tell whether the rating it produces is "good". In Amazon's case that is quite likely to be some measure of clicks or sales.
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- tajen 10y agoI only buy from Amazon when the product isn't available anywhere else: Between counterfeit products, external vendors that I don't know how to distinguish from Amazon itself, stuff "Available in 2 days" that gets delivered 2 months later, bought reviews, strange ratings and pictures which don't natch the description — I have a 70% chance of paying the return shipment.