Re:Layoffs hit Quora
by harikb on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:54PM
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So far what I have seen is Google search giving snippets or Google AMP optimizing for mobile. Still the content is physically from some page verbatim. The AI/NLP comes in only in top 0.1% kind of queries like “what is the weather” or “what is my IP address”. Saying Google’s AI is learning everything is like blaming Chinese for stealing all tech. Yes, it happens at some cases, but not likely. I am surprised to see so much Google hatred here.
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Re:Layoffs hit Quora
by codingslave on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:04PM
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The newest research out of the Google AI labs is all centered around extractive summarazation. Led by a researcher from CMU named William Cohen. Their next big business is content extraction.
What the R&D dept aspires to maybe do in the future is hardly the same as what they do in the present.
Re:Layoffs hit Quora
by codingslave on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:23PM
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The extracted content on their search page is just the beginning. They are spending huge efforts to get better at it. Specifically, extracting information from multiple pages at the same time. Eventually it will mostly be a query interface that surfaces information for fact based queries.