Originally published in TechCrunch, March 7, 2023. Late last month, Artifact, a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most iconic social apps would return to startups to focus on one of the toughest areas instead: news. It’s
Originally published in Spotify Research, Feb 22, 2023. A new approach to calibrating recommendations to user interests Users’ interests are multi-faceted and representing different aspects of users’ interest in their recommendations is an important factor for recommender...
Originally published in Shopify Engineering, Feb 8, 2023. A business’s taxes can be difficult to manage, especially in the United States. Tax laws are complicated and vary state-to-state, city-to-city, and product-to-product, further adding to the complexity. When...
Originally published in Brookings, Feb 21, 2023. With OpenAI’s ChatGPT now a constant presence both on social media and in the news, generative artificial intelligence (AI) models have taken hold of the public’s imagination. Policymakers have taken...
Originally published in Amatriain, Jan 29, 2023. Ten years ago, we published a post in the Netflix tech blog explaining our three-tier architectural approach to building recommender systems (see below). A lot has happened in the last 10 years...
Originally published in Spotify R&D Engineering, Feb 1, 2023. Introduction As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of our lives grows, it is becoming increasingly important...
Originally published in The Verge, Jan 25, 2023. The tech news site came under scrutiny this month after it was reported the outlet was using AI to write articles. Last week, executives said the use of the...
Originally published in Bloomberg.com, Jan 19, 2023. Emails shed new light on CEO’s involvement in 2016 demo. Carmaker faces probes, claims on how it’s marketed its tech. Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the...
Originally published in TechCrunch, Dec 22, 2022. It’s proving tough to rein in systems like ChatGPT. Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is...