We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis

Post by PoignardAzur » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

selfhoster11 wrote: post #35

hajile wrote: post #3

The commercial opinion bit is incredibly annoying. Ask for an opinion and you’ll get 5 pages of custom built “review” sites that offer nothing useful besides copious ads and paid click-through to Amazon. Even when Google knows where I go with my searches, they still refuse to show those sites for anything that might have commercial interest. So much for customized search. I get tired of being the product. Can we get…

I literally append "site:reddit.com" like in the article whenever I'm looking for reviews and comparisons. Google is nearly useless for finding content among the sea of crap and autogenerated near-crap (like Slant). I might click on the links going to sites that I half-remember by name, but for open-ended searches it's a lost war.

Post by kingsuper20 » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

Quarrelsome wrote: post #17

balia wrote: post #5

This seems it will be applied to self driving technology in a huge way. All of these companies doing advanced AI vision detection, classification etc... they’re really hard problems. But the whole challenge will eventually become nullified when every single road sign, landmark, and the road itself are tagged internally with metadata. Instead of trying to decipher how does this PNG of a speed limit sign translate into…

> the number metadata would be encoded in the sign. Oh yea that's not going to backfire at all is it? Lemme just work out how to frig it to state the max speed limit is zero and create an automated car pile-up.

Post by kumarvvr » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

soarfourmore wrote: post #49

The following quotes are fairly interesting and ironic: > Larry Page and Sergey Brin were originally pretty negative about search engines that sold ads. Appendix A in their original paper says: >> "we expect that advertising-funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers" > and that >> "we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives…

Post by 0xffff2 » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

mxcrossb wrote: post #57

pea wrote: post #29

An annoying example which has gotten worse recently is recipes. I generally trawl through 5k words of someone's life story and product promotions to get to the piece of information I need, and they often rewrite the recipe 5 different times in different levels of detail -- is this because to make the first page rank on Google you need to pad out the SEO? I too always find myself doing site:reddit.com.

I only go to Allrecipes now for exactly this reason. It’s funny, people used to mock that site for the stupid reviews, but what matters can quickly change...

Post by nautilus12 » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

lifthearth wrote: post #107

Causality1 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. Money is the one unpatchable zero-day for every platform and service on earth.

There is a patch thanks to contributor Marx but everyone keeps pressing "remind me later".