Well step one is Amazon to recommend that you like O’Brian based on my liking both of them and our mutual liking of Bujold and for you to tell Amazon to gettafa and it remembers and only suggests books like Bujold and not-like O’Brian.
I think it’s a vast data crunching job. Uploading your library would help – then it could run some statistical analysis and start spotting gaps in your book shelves. Then it can get more sophisticated as it builds up data. I tag O’Brian as nautical romp and you tag him as dislikeable and it starts to learn where your tastes and mine diverge and only offer up suggestions based on areas of mutual overlap.
(At some point it becomes a weakly god-like AI and starts nudging us to read more Dickens and less Stross.)
It requires the customer to want to invest in the retail relationship too.
From a user point of view I’m not sure it needs to be difficult. As output all I’m asking for are a list of ten books I might not have known I wanted a way to tell Amazon it’s way off beam or spot on. If I want the mechanics of the decision it would be helpful to be able to drill into them but not necessary for the output to be useful
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Date: 2012-05-15 12:18 pm (UTC)I think it’s a vast data crunching job. Uploading your library would help – then it could run some statistical analysis and start spotting gaps in your book shelves. Then it can get more sophisticated as it builds up data. I tag O’Brian as nautical romp and you tag him as dislikeable and it starts to learn where your tastes and mine diverge and only offer up suggestions based on areas of mutual overlap.
(At some point it becomes a weakly god-like AI and starts nudging us to read more Dickens and less Stross.)
It requires the customer to want to invest in the retail relationship too.
From a user point of view I’m not sure it needs to be difficult. As output all I’m asking for are a list of ten books I might not have known I wanted a way to tell Amazon it’s way off beam or spot on. If I want the mechanics of the decision it would be helpful to be able to drill into them but not necessary for the output to be useful