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Re: Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans

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Reminds me of Google's 411 service back in the day. People thought "cool, Google is offering a free service". But Google was just collecting voice samples to train its voice recognition algorithms.

ok Google. Spy on all my activities. Sell them to corporations and governments.

Re: Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans

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post #6

>If a user asks A, you respond B. A user may never ask A. Or, a user may only ask A once; in which case, did we really need to pre-compute the answer?

with 100s millions of user, each question will become a common question.

Classic Pareto setup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle)

Re: Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans

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post #9

"Supervised learning" makes me even more excited about M, because pure AI at this point won't be so useful.

AI in large part is supervised learning. I think the more important question here is when that becomes feasible for general purpose stuff for facebook.

Re: Facebook Messenger Assistant Powered by Humans

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post #6

>If a user asks A, you respond B. A user may never ask A. Or, a user may only ask A once; in which case, did we really need to pre-compute the answer?

with 100s millions of user, each question will become a common question.

Questions like: what, why, when, how? They are very common, but don't have definite answers.

The problem is, even with 100s of millions (or even billions), there are still an infinite number of questions that can be asked. Each of those questions can't be common.

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