How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First”

Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:23PM (#11957514)

And my anecdotal experience is that it's working extremely well. Take the Google Photos app that does automatic image recognition and tagging. The other day I was looking for a picture we took of our cat the first night we brought him home. I remembered we left him with a blanket in the bathroom but couldn't remember much else.

"kitten bathroom 2013"

And there was a picture of the cat sitting in the tub on a blanket. Simply amazing.

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by cxseven on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:33PM (#11957567)

Strangely, half the time I try to use Google Now on my phone, it doesn't seem to understand basic queries that worked two years ago. And in the meanwhile, features and APIs that used to allow more reliable and explicit control (e.g. like in Picasa) are being shut down. I guess someone at Google figured that imitating Apple is worth sacrificing what remained of their power user appeal.

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by dzhiurgis on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:03PM (#11957994)

Just yesterday I was amazed I was unable to Google 'what is the smallest website possible' or 'what can you fit on 32kb website' or whether html demoscene exists at all. Or sometimes the results seem like complete spam, instead of showing me answers on xcode, it was showing some heavily seo-ized apple blogs.

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by superuser2 on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:40PM (#11958525)

Pretty sure "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" is the smallest possible website.

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by thedlade on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:11PM (#11958019)

I have also noticed that the results are becoming more spammy, I thought I was losing it.

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by erelde on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:23PM (#11958075)

With or without ajax? /jk. But 32Ko is already a lot if there's no images or js libraries.

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by stcredzero on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @06:45PM (#11957638)

I guess someone at Google figured that imitating Apple is worth sacrificing what remained of their power user appeal.

"Sacrificing what remained of their power user appeal" is imitating Apple!

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Re:How Google Is Remaking Itself for “Machine Learning First” by raverbashing on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:28AM (#11959576)

Google thinks half my pictures of cats are dogs

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