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> predict people's preferences regarding music/movies/books better than any human could What recommender algorithm is this? Amazon certainly isn’t using it.
by barry-cotter 6y ago
> predict people's preferences regarding music/movies/books better than any human could
What recommender algorithm is this? Amazon certainly isn’t using it.
- Swenrekcah 6y agoI'm not sure the incentives align for Amazon to use it's absolute best preference algorithm. Note that I have no idea how to make a recommender engine and if they can make it any better than they have, but I suspect the real value for revenue is to make people think that the algorithm is finely tailored to their tastes, but is really just pushing whatever crap has the highest margins.
- Tenoke 6y agoI also dont benefit much from thr majority of reccomendations but I think you might just be underestimating how bad humans are at it.