Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown

Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by PuppyTailWags on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:36PM (#33251052)

I disagree current systems can turn a web search that presents results in a pleasing manner. I had a horrible time trying to find a specific musician's work on YouTube just last night. It kept recommending me completely unrelated vids as if I was browsing just to browse. It couldn't seem to comprehend that even though I usually watch cute cat videos today I am searching for music, even when I was exact quoting the author's name.

I think technology has shifted from giving me what I want to telling me what I want. I really dislike it.

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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by foobarian on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:05PM (#33251503)

The current Alexa experience is like guessing the syntax in the early 90s adventure games. It's horrible :-)

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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by bornfreddy on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:50PM (#33252896)

But man does it feel good when you guess correctly. :-)

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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by Apocryphon on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:20PM (#33253302)

Wait, has anyone made audio interactive fiction on Alexa? Sounds like a killer app for those who've played text adventures.

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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by Rury on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:30PM (#33254953)

I think a part of this problem is just simply a matter of scale. As more and more information gets generated and stored on the internet, finding the information you exactly need in 3-5 words typed into a search engine at some point just ceases to become probable or even possible. So search engines now kind of try to predict what you want based upon limited information you give it (along with other things like how often something is visited and paid for promotions), and you end up perceiving it as it telling you what you want.

Sadly giving a search engine too many words can stop it from even searching, probably because that would cause a scan or result in a very time and computer/resource intensive search. So it doesn't even bother searching and tells you it couldn't find anything.

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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by ROTMetro on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:14PM (#33255354)

You answered yourself in the last sentence. Google's algorithm is designed to maximize their add return not to immediately return what you are searching for.

Imagine this use case. User searches for a video that costs Youtube royalty fees and is not monetized. Do you prioritize that in your return results or some other video that makes your business money instead of costing it?

Same thing with the Spotify Company playlists and recommendations versus user generated ones. Spotify's seems to include lesser quality, lower royalty songs now even though that is not what I want and it knows it. But unlike Google, I only go to Spotify BECAUSE of the quality of the songs it recommends me. Now that it's priority is first lower royalty songs over songs it things I would like the most I have no incentive to stay.

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Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown by anigbrowl on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:29PM (#33255494)

I think technology has shifted from giving me what I want to telling me what I want.

Underrated insight

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