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Yeah, the recommendations on YouTube are horrible. Google is a very hard company to understand sometimes. They're attempting to make self-driving cars with AI,
by droidist2 9y ago
Yeah, the recommendations on YouTube are horrible. Google is a very hard company to understand sometimes. They're attempting to make self-driving cars with AI, yet they can't recommend relevant videos.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoThe recommendations make a lot more sense if you assume that they don't especially care about content-driven relevance and instead just care about maximizing the expected value of how many people watch another video (all hail "engagement").
- wingerlang 9y agoA self driving car seems easier in some ways. Just make it not crash. Recommendations for millions of people and millions of videos on the other hand. Liking a video is subjective, for some channels I don't like half their content yet I am a regular viewer of some of their series. Personally I am quite happy with their recommendations, even if I don't watch half of it.
- droidist2 9y agoMaybe easier in some senses, but cars are life and death. If 1 out of 10 of your recommendations are bad, no big deal. If the car misclassifies obstacles in the road at even 1/100th that rate, not acceptable.