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I think the AI winter was over by 2007. There was a lot of hype about machine learning and big data. The Netflix Prize for building a Recommender model launched

by mateo411 11mo ago

I think the AI winter was over by 2007. There was a lot of hype about machine learning and big data. The Netflix Prize for building a Recommender model launched in 2006. There was research on neural networks and deep belief networks, but they weren't as popular as they are today.

uvaursi 11mo ago
And then Netflix decided to churn out garbage that no AGI recommendation engine can redeem.
- mateo411 11mo ago
  There were some interesting algorithms that came out of the contest. There was a matrix factorization algorithm that worked pretty well. Another "guy in a garage" tried to incorporate the anchoring effect into their models. I don't think Netflix used any of the algorithms. I suspect they have more data on the user and movies than was presented in the contest. I agree, if all of the content is garbage, then you don't need a model, you could simply pick something at random.