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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by codingslave on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:04PM (#22144350)
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.
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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by bawolff on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:16PM (#22144398)
What the R&D dept aspires to maybe do in the future is hardly the same as what they do in the present.
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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by codingslave on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:23PM (#22144427)
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.
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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by babayega2 on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:05PM (#22144588)
Exactly. I have been recently just using the drop down to read a summarize answer to questions I have googled. No need to go further...
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