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This is BS. ML targeted ads were the first application to make money and that happened a long long time ago (maybe 15 years at this point?). Nowadays there are

This is BS. ML targeted ads were the first application to make money and that happened a long long time ago (maybe 15 years at this point?). Nowadays there are a lot of products where ML is an essential feature.

shagie 4y ago
It was reported on in 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?unlocked_article_code=78Jl5WPRgiT_Rio3PbNE2Cy1fPHMDUchGflDCw8lBtWeX2AYiLlBqzRJx9gbcRSXNSizh1PCQ4BwQBen1cNVrm-fJse1EfEJuG5s0tfEOfN3yHWvYSzaVCuPfioRWbOuPDVjRyZMQzdEiGVMMWB3JuL8a-P875tEnxaVUS9NYJJ3e7H4ErU2vKC5WKUhPaH-z2ZCy4rcnkDWZbKcdXjbKXsfdLYMFlJhk8ritgRN0ognW_ziadElCbA8Bcv_xtZ-3EJw-1K_r-PbzltMVBA6MK08c4OUQPchn70fQzTreK4rnYhpEqdDehQDGHOGWw4C3qp89L8NngDDTQ&smid=share-url https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.... - and the person who implemented it was hired in 2002. For the tweet, note the hyperbole and mocking of AWS more than the mocking of ML. The entire chain of tweets is mocking the cloud with hyperbole and a grain of truth.