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Dear Amazon (lemmy.ml)

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

All that money, all those algorithms and machine learning... and this is the best they can do?

Or YouTube recommending me videos in Arabic, thinking that maybe I happened to learn the language.

Are these the same tech giants that supposedly want to solve all of humanity's problems with AGI in under 2 years from now?

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Amazon is demonstrably proficient at driving sales through targeted advertising. They practically invented it. One anecdotal counter-example doesnt outweigh that.