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I would argue that all of your examples have failed to be anything even remotely resembling AI, just data crunching to fit most use cases. I don't use GMail but

I would argue that all of your examples have failed to be anything even remotely resembling AI, just data crunching to fit most use cases. I don't use GMail but I do regularly use Google image search, Translate, YouTube, Netflix and predictive typing via SwitfKey. And IMHO they all suck horribly (SwiftKey still sucks pretty bad after 8 years of learning from me). Google Translate is getting better and I have recently started using first-pass Google Translate before correcting the mistakes... instead of everything by hand. YT/Netflix Recommendations are always bullshit. I wish there was a way to say "never show me anything like this ever again" because I often feel like 90% of the recommendations make absolutely no sense. Sometimes I think that someone else must be logged into my account clicking on things just to mess with my recommendations. I usually spend a minimum of 30 minutes searching, often giving up out of frustration (and I always have an IMDB tab open to check details because all of the IMDB rating plugins for Firefox stop/ped working). Maybe I'm an edge case living outside the U.S.? Are their algorithms only tuned for English-speaking countries? The most creative, intelligent and least frustrating "AI" I've ever encountered was in some games, such as Dota2 or many years ago F.E.A.R. They were frustrating but only due to unpredictability, even after hundreds of hours of playtime. YouTube and NetFlix AI after hundreds/thousands of hours invested are also very unpredictable and frustrating, but that's the opposite experience I am looking for in those situations.

blablabla123 8y ago
Completely have to agree. YouTube has so much content, far more than Spotify, Vimeo and everybody else in the space, which is why I use it. But the recommendations are an offense. YT is only good at 'recommending' stuff I already watched or listened to. What's the point? Translate can be useful at times...like once a year when I want to comprehend a Japanese website, usually I close the tab after 2 minutes. I used GMail for many years and still do to some degree but I'm moving to a different mail provider. GMail's spam filter is great! Not sure, since 2 years it became acceptable to make no difference between ML and AI. ML appears smart because of bizillions of training samples and I feel very impressed when I hear of that. But yeah, at the end of the day it doesn't have exactly the biggest impact on me... ;)

blablabla123 8y ago

Completely have to agree. YouTube has so much content, far more than Spotify, Vimeo and everybody else in the space, which is why I use it. But the recommendations are an offense. YT is only good at 'recommending' stuff I already watched or listened to. What's the point? Translate can be useful at times...like once a year when I want to comprehend a Japanese website, usually I close the tab after 2 minutes. I used GMail for many years and still do to some degree but I'm moving to a different mail provider. GMail's spam filter is great! Not sure, since 2 years it became acceptable to make no difference between ML and AI. ML appears smart because of bizillions of training samples and I feel very impressed when I hear of that. But yeah, at the end of the day it doesn't have exactly the biggest impact on me... ;)