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Ken Liu: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Optimized for for the Types of Metrics That These Companies Want to Optimize for and Still Could Be Better

There's a lot of hoopla about these companies really optimized for for metrics like profit when it comes to recommendation systems time on site. If they were to flood the script a little bit and start thinking about the things you said in terms of offering you maybe something on the long tail the distribution as opposed to the most popular thing i mean that feels like very much the explore exploit trade-off sometimes they might recommend you something bad but sometimes they might get it right and give you something.

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