Perhaps the author is anal retentive, and this is revealed in his book; making the affiliative recommendation even smarter than we could have expected. Turing would have loved it.
(Just kidding; my own strange sense of humor). David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] have we moved on? > Martin C. Martin wrote: > ... >> But say that to most AI researchers, and they'll stare at you >> uncomprehendingly. They want a well defined problem, such as using all >> users purchases at Amazon to suggest other purchases for a single user. > > A while back, a DARPA program manager (an agent person, at that), > sent out the notice to his program that the textbook on agents that he > wrote before moving to DARPA was available on Amazon. The beauty of > this was the "people who purchased this" recommendations, which started > with "Clean Underwear". He reported this and I subsequently checked > and, sure enough, Amazon recommended that purchasers of his book would > also like to purchase clean underwear. I suspect this was the default > for something that had no purchasers, showing the sense of humour of the > programmers. However, I have seen many other nearly as absurd > recommendations from that type of AI. Clearly, the absurdity arises > because they do not model the real world, just data mine blindly. Those > recommendation systems clearly do not pass the Turing test. > > -- > Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > IDART Project Lead Voice:505-844-4024 > IORTA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 > http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 > http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
