It’s 2024, we’re in the throes of the AI revolution… and eBay’s taste-matching / suggestions algorithm is still running on dumb keyword-matching.

27 Thursday Jun 2024
Posted in Ooops!
It’s 2024, we’re in the throes of the AI revolution… and eBay’s taste-matching / suggestions algorithm is still running on dumb keyword-matching.

23 Sunday Jun 2024
Posted in Spotted in the news
New in open source, Tagasuarus for annotating a locally-stored collection of media and documents. Images, audio, video, PDFs. The annotations are then stored with the files, and can then be searched across. No full AI to add rich image classifications, as yet. But there is a limited AI that can “automatically apply emotions [tags] when the images/videos have faces”.
11 Tuesday Jun 2024
Posted in JURN tips and tricks
An interesting finding. My tests suggest that a basic keyword search of YouTube (using the YouTube search-box) references only the words in the video title. Not tags, or any additional text added by the uploader.