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Also, for a long time, searching Google for “London bridge” returned an incorrectly labelled photo of Tower Bridge as its top result.
Genius.
"What is the weather in Manhattan" probably means NYC, unless you are near Kansas...
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Are we talking BCE or CE? :)
Were there Aprils in BCE?
Of course, the Romans didn't use 'BCE' at that time. They referred to years by the consuls who held office that year.
This example illustrates how difficult AGI is and how far we are from it. We, humans, tend to take advantage of the context to make communication simpler and shorter. Just think about all the implications of this one simple question: what time is it in London? Or e.g. how can I get from London to Dublin? If the person asking the question lives in Ohio, they may actually be talking about London OH (or Dublin OH). Some…
> If the person asking the question lives in Ohio, they may actually be talking about London OH (or Dublin OH). I would seriously doubt this assumption. Why on earth should someone living in a state specifically ask for the local time in a different location within that same state? On the contrary, this context information would make it much more likely that the person actually meant "London, England". Except if ther…
In this case it is totally normal for someone living in Netherlands to ask the time for a polish city.
This example illustrates how difficult AGI is and how far we are from it. We, humans, tend to take advantage of the context to make communication simpler and shorter. Just think about all the implications of this one simple question: what time is it in London? Or e.g. how can I get from London to Dublin? If the person asking the question lives in Ohio, they may actually be talking about London OH (or Dublin OH). Some…
In a recent example, I was using my favorite search engine and showed someone a query for "toaster" where the top results was an infobox describing what a toaster was. They thought the relevance for the query was hilariously wrong saying, "everyone already knows what a toaster is, I want results for buying a toaster".
IMO I thought the results were perfect based on the query. Neither of us were wrong.
The expectation for search tools has dramatically shifted where many people expect them to have oracle like qualities.
I must admit I have grown weary of appending “the country” to every Google search I make related to Georgia. Also, for a long time, searching Google for “London bridge” returned an incorrectly labelled photo of Tower Bridge as its top result. Genius.
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> In the absence of context there is no best answer. sigh why do people always feel the need to redefine words? By any definition of the word, "best" is correct term to use here. Here's a few definitions of the word "best", please and in all honesty, tell me why the use is wrong given the following: • best: "In the most excellent or most suitable manner; with most advantage or success: as, he who runs best gets the p…
Yes, but that set of criteria to establish a metric is context.
> The context-free metric for ranking cities is global relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city
There is no context whatsoever in global relevance.
If you ask someone what time it is, you don't get asked "where?" in return - the current location is implied. Same with cities - if you mention London, it is implied that you mean the most globally relevant London, not the one that was named after it.
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Tell that to their atrocious app store situation. Need an banking app for Japan AND one for the USA each only available on that country's store. Apple says F.U!
Are you only allowed to affiliate your Apple ID with one country’s app store? If I moved to Japan and switched to the Japanese app store would I just lose all of the apps I purchased via the US store?
You won't lose the apps you have installed but
1. They won't update until you switch back so you'll likely need to switch 2 to 4 times a year as your bank and/or other services deprecates their old apps.
2. Switching requires manually re-entering your name, address, phone number, and credit card info every time.
3. Any subscriptions you have via Apple Pay will be cancelled.
Thanks Apple!
And note: While the average person does not have bank accounts in 2 countries I've run into plenty of apps I needed as a tourist that are only available on that country's store. For example the Lime app is not available in the Japanese store because Lime isn't in Japan but if I'm visiting a country with Lime then I want to be able to use the Lime app so I need to switch stores.
Meanwhile my Switch lets me have multiple user accounts. Each user's account can be assigned to a different country so I can buy The Touryst from the USA store and Japan exclusives from the Japan store. (not saying 2 accounts are the best solution it's just surprising that a Nintendo device does this part better than Apple)