[FRIAM] have we moved on?

[David Breecker]

Perhaps the author is anal retentive, and this is revealed in his book; 
making the affiliative recommendation even smarter than we could have 
expected.  Turing would have loved it.

(Just kidding; my own strange sense of humor).
David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Parks" <rcparks at sandia.gov>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam at redfish.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] have we moved on?


> Martin C. Martin wrote:
> ...
>> But say that to most AI researchers, and they'll stare at you
>> uncomprehendingly.  They want a well defined problem, such as using all
>> users purchases at Amazon to suggest other purchases for a single user.
>
>   A while back, a DARPA program manager (an agent person, at that),
> sent out the notice to his program that the textbook on agents that he
> wrote before moving to DARPA was available on Amazon.  The beauty of
> this was the "people who purchased this" recommendations, which started
> with "Clean Underwear".  He reported this and I subsequently checked
> and, sure enough, Amazon recommended that purchasers of his book would
> also like to purchase clean underwear.  I suspect this was the default
> for something that had no purchasers, showing the sense of humour of the
> programmers.  However, I have seen many other nearly as absurd
> recommendations from that type of AI.  Clearly, the absurdity arises
> because they do not model the real world, just data mine blindly.  Those
> recommendation systems clearly do not pass the Turing test.
>
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