Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo
by potatoman22 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:07AM
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For most information retrieval purposes, Google's NLP algorithms can effectively determine the meaning of your query thanks to BERT
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In a simple probabilistic sense, sure. Shove enough data at the problem and the easy cases work out. Those are only a small subset of the problem space.
Until we address meaning, my statement remains solid. And it can often be easier to treat the tool like what it is rather than figure out how to best pretend it is something it is clearly not.