Want better online recommendations? It takes better AI, and a human touch - The Verge

Apps from Netflix to Amazon to Yelp to Pinterest are trying to offer better recommendations about almost everything. But that requires understanding humans, and that’s hard to do.

Spending hours on endless side-scrolling rows of Netflix movies or hunting through the forever-long lists of identically rated restaurants on Yelp this cant be the way its supposed to work. Part of t… [+8972 chars]

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