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There's at least a theoretical possibility that even Facebook does not exactly know why they make certain recommendations. This could be just a machine doing al
by jpalomaki 9y ago
There's at least a theoretical possibility that even Facebook does not exactly know why they make certain recommendations. This could be just a machine doing all the work. All kinds of data goes in, predictions are made. Facebook users give feedback by accepting/rejecting the recommendations and algorithms learn and adjust accordingly.
- cat199 9y agoAnd who builds this machine and how do they tune/debug/improve it? Pretty sure any given computation could be traced, though it might take a bit of work and need to be captured fairly quickly...
- MiddleEndian 9y agoI've been to machine learning talks where the presenters freely admitted they weren't exactly sure how what they made works. Reminds me of this comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2460#comic http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2460#comic
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- squarefoot 9y agoI'm loving this comic, thanks for the link!
- Buge 9y agoI was thinking this one https://xkcd.com/1838/ https://xkcd.com/1838/
- MiddleEndian 9y agoAlso a good one, which reminds me of devs saying it's really hard to write tests for ML algorithms.
- azag0 9y agoI think much effort went into understanding why AlphaGo makes the decisions it does, and it’s almost a research project in each particular case.