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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by marcosdumay on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:06PM (#14588998)
Decades ago, people used to predict that "in the future" we would have intelligent machines that we could set up to go after stuff that interest us and bring only what we care about. Those machines would be an extension of our brain, empowering ourselves.

We've got those machines, but with a fundamentally broken implementation. I wonder if we will ever fix them.

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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by rhizome on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:30PM (#14589202)
The people who made those predictions? Current Facebook investors.
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by colejohnson66 on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:45PM (#14590309)
Is there a citation for that?
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by rhizome on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:17PM (#14590541)
No.
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by chris_wot on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:23PM (#14589131)
Perhaps the broken implementation is human self interest? If it's not interesting or sensational then we aren't interested, thus we've trained the implementation to only give us skewed results?

Real Housewives, Kim Kardashian and TMZ should have alerted us to this.

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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by marcosdumay on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:25PM (#14590159)
We can have programs looking for our interests while researching the newest celebrity gossip online. Instead, we only have ones looking for Facebook's interests.
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by chris_wot on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:26AM (#14594859)
That's the issue. If you only care about your own interests, then you miss out on important things. How do you think Trump got to his world view?
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by petra on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:41PM (#14590685)
You already have that. Just limit your internet access to Google Books.
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Re:Media Companies Are Getting Sick of Facebook by mark_l_watson on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:57PM (#14592097)
Question: does Google Books do a good job recommending material based on previous book purchase? I have only bought about 5 books there, so and recommendation system there does not have much to work with.
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