With explicit feedback, AI needs less data than you think
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We’ve all come to appreciate that AI and machine learning are the magic sauce powering large-scale consumer internet properties. Facebook, Amazon and Instacart boast enormous datasets and huge user counts. Common wisdom suggests that this scale advantage is a powerful competitive moat; it enables far better personalization, recommendations and ultimately, a better user experience. In this article, I will show you that this moat is shallower than it seems; and that alternative approaches to personalization can produce outstanding outcomes without relying on billions of data points.
With explicit feedback, AI needs less data than you think
With explicit feedback, AI needs less data…
With explicit feedback, AI needs less data than you think
We’ve all come to appreciate that AI and machine learning are the magic sauce powering large-scale consumer internet properties. Facebook, Amazon and Instacart boast enormous datasets and huge user counts. Common wisdom suggests that this scale advantage is a powerful competitive moat; it enables far better personalization, recommendations and ultimately, a better user experience. In this article, I will show you that this moat is shallower than it seems; and that alternative approaches to personalization can produce outstanding outcomes without relying on billions of data points.