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This is so strange. If you use facebook, google, netflix, apple, microsoft, amazon or a whole host of other services you are interfacing with AI all the time. T

This is so strange. If you use facebook, google, netflix, apple, microsoft, amazon or a whole host of other services you are interfacing with AI all the time. To think there’s no value there is asinine. Comes up a lot on HN. Seems like people set in their ways who don’t want to progress forward.

enchiridion 6y ago
Isn't copy and pasting within a thread generally discouraged?
fock 6y ago
oh yeah, magnificient AI at Google search. Picked up my ebook-reader again, wanted to know about the state of linux there. so do a search: "<model of ebookreader> linux ssh" (since a good shell is the point, where you can start developing). Turns out, the first 3 pages want to sell me the same thing I already own, with one outlier selling nutritional supplements. Oh well done AI!
- bronco21016 6y ago
  It’s doing exactly as it’s trained. Nudge the useds to buy more trinkets. Now just imagine how good it could be if it was being trained to actually give good search results instead of selling.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
    Unfortunately, Google Search (and Amazon and MS search and all three companies' assistants) doesn't work that well when it comes to selling you what you want to buy either: https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes But it sure can identify stripes.
- juped 6y ago
  idk, the thing Google has been doing lately where they suddenly render a block of ads under your mouse as you're clicking on a result seems like the kind of thing an AI would do to increase ad clicks
perl4ever 6y ago
There's a nearly unimaginable amount of money and computing power going to minimize the net value of the service + ads. If you get significant value, it's going to be optimized out in a few minutes. The ads on Youtube recently ramped up to where even something short is unwatchable for me, and it doesn't work at all with an adblocker.

enchiridion 6y ago

Isn't copy and pasting within a thread generally discouraged?

fock 6y ago

oh yeah, magnificient AI at Google search. Picked up my ebook-reader again, wanted to know about the state of linux there. so do a search: "<model of ebookreader> linux ssh" (since a good shell is the point, where you can start developing). Turns out, the first 3 pages want to sell me the same thing I already own, with one outlier selling nutritional supplements. Oh well done AI!

bronco21016 6y ago
It’s doing exactly as it’s trained. Nudge the useds to buy more trinkets. Now just imagine how good it could be if it was being trained to actually give good search results instead of selling.
- YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
  Unfortunately, Google Search (and Amazon and MS search and all three companies' assistants) doesn't work that well when it comes to selling you what you want to buy either: https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes But it sure can identify stripes.
juped 6y ago
idk, the thing Google has been doing lately where they suddenly render a block of ads under your mouse as you're clicking on a result seems like the kind of thing an AI would do to increase ad clicks

perl4ever 6y ago

There's a nearly unimaginable amount of money and computing power going to minimize the net value of the service + ads. If you get significant value, it's going to be optimized out in a few minutes. The ads on Youtube recently ramped up to where even something short is unwatchable for me, and it doesn't work at all with an adblocker.