Google.com is today's Ai. No reason to believe it will stop improving.
Re:The end of smartphone innovation
by dredmorbius on Saturday March 25, 2017 @07:10PM
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Stop? I can't wait for it to start!
And yet their search result quality subjectively seems to be stable at best or declining slightly. If that's AI then it's certainly not as smart as the spammers and black-hat SEOs. On the mobile side, when the latest version of Google Assistant misunderstands what I want so often as to be worse than useless.
Still hoping to see some improvement but not holding my breath.
Well, Google search results have been declining for some years now, as observed by very many.
And there's nothing to Google.com more than a simple heuristic algorithm, which can be totally dumb to context and nuance.
Re:The end of smartphone innovation
by dredmorbius on Sunday March 26, 2017 @01:03PM
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Any pointers to such accounts?
(I've written my own, but I'm interested in others'.)
I don't think so. I think AI is just one of those fads that come up every now and then, and then get abandoned for the next one.
I'm calling AI as in "actual working strong AI" or useful soft AI stuff as fad.
I'm calling "AI" as in the thing currently every VC/company is investing in and we see various helpers like Cortana and Siri based, the machine learning craze, on etc. Besides some obvious and fitting applications (like in self driving cars) it will go nowhere fast.
VR has already reached this stage, without making any large dent on the market in the first place even temporarily.
Note that this is the second time AI is promised and will get nowhere (the first was back in the 80s, with the "AI winter").