Sunday, November 10, 2013

"Google admits the human brain still beats an algorithm"

"There are just some tasks at which Google's algorithms remain at a competitive disadvantage to actual human beings, one being personalized answers to questions that require expert assistance. And so Google announced its "helpouts" product, which the New York Times said was "an acknowledgement by the company that its search engine misses a lot of information that people want."

Eric Rosenbaum CNBC.com

4 comments:

deborah said...

Interesting. I'm trying to think what I would want help with enough to use this service.

john said...

For some time now I haven't been able to say that word without chuckling.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Dallas Malas.

Chip Ahoy said...

Probably about 10,000 calls for trussing a turkey all within few hours.