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would you care to elaborate on what parts of Discover that are powered by AI? In all honesty, I think the lines are severely blurred at this point.

blixt 9y ago
AI has been a moving goalpost since its conception, all the way from • "it can play tic tac toe"; • to "it can beat people at chess, Jeopardy, Go, DotA"; • to "it can see, understand and physically move around our world"; • to "it solves problems the smartest humans can't begin to fathom" Spotify's machine learning algorithms are definitely beyond tic tac toe as they can learn from millions of listeners and look at a single listening history to figure out great music suggestions. I would put that under the AI umbrella as it's something people were doing before computers did it.
- GrumpyNl 9y ago
  Is that AI from spotify or just smartly compairing lists?
  - blixt 9y ago
    What is "smartly comparing lists"? To describe further (as I'm an ex-Spotify employee I have some outdated insight into how it works): Spotify has historically used machine learning to tweak a predictive engine that can convert a track or artist into an N-dimensional value and then use the distance to other tracks/artists in this N-dimensional space. Is that AI? Maybe. How does the brain work? Maybe when you see a dog it's converted into an N-dimensional space where cats are pretty close, at least much closer than turtles. So if that is human intelligence, is Spotify's recommendation engine not artificial intelligence?
    - veli_joza 9y ago
      Thanks for the insight, very interesting! I'm working on project that uses distances in N-dimensional space for determining appropriate human response and face expression; I was also wandering if this falls under AI umbrella.
ThomPete 9y ago
Spotify will tell artist to change or remix parts of their songs. Songwriting is a craft but on a platform like spotify its turned into a science. Think a/b testing for songs. Thats what i have heard they are doing. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/40439000/why-did-spotify-hire-this-expert-in-music-making-ai https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/40439000/wh...
vbsteven 9y ago
It’s a machine (algorithm) that looks and learns from my listening history and that of other users, defines certain specific listening patterns/genres for me and it compiles mixes with old and new music for each of those genres. I don’t see that much difference with an AI that looks at and learns from a lot of historic go games to recommend or play the optimal next moves for the current go board.

blixt 9y ago

AI has been a moving goalpost since its conception, all the way from • "it can play tic tac toe"; • to "it can beat people at chess, Jeopardy, Go, DotA"; • to "it can see, understand and physically move around our world"; • to "it solves problems the smartest humans can't begin to fathom" Spotify's machine learning algorithms are definitely beyond tic tac toe as they can learn from millions of listeners and look at a single listening history to figure out great music suggestions. I would put that under the AI umbrella as it's something people were doing before computers did it.

GrumpyNl 9y ago
Is that AI from spotify or just smartly compairing lists?
- blixt 9y ago
  What is "smartly comparing lists"? To describe further (as I'm an ex-Spotify employee I have some outdated insight into how it works): Spotify has historically used machine learning to tweak a predictive engine that can convert a track or artist into an N-dimensional value and then use the distance to other tracks/artists in this N-dimensional space. Is that AI? Maybe. How does the brain work? Maybe when you see a dog it's converted into an N-dimensional space where cats are pretty close, at least much closer than turtles. So if that is human intelligence, is Spotify's recommendation engine not artificial intelligence?
  - veli_joza 9y ago
    Thanks for the insight, very interesting! I'm working on project that uses distances in N-dimensional space for determining appropriate human response and face expression; I was also wandering if this falls under AI umbrella.

ThomPete 9y ago

Spotify will tell artist to change or remix parts of their songs. Songwriting is a craft but on a platform like spotify its turned into a science. Think a/b testing for songs. Thats what i have heard they are doing. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/40439000/why-did-spotify-hire-this-expert-in-music-making-ai https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.fastcompany.com/40439000/wh...

vbsteven 9y ago

It’s a machine (algorithm) that looks and learns from my listening history and that of other users, defines certain specific listening patterns/genres for me and it compiles mixes with old and new music for each of those genres. I don’t see that much difference with an AI that looks at and learns from a lot of historic go games to recommend or play the optimal next moves for the current go board.