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0 pointszacksinclair6y ago0 comments

Every human understands that phrase and yet the AI doesn't. That's the gap that has to be fixed.

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You have to realize that search is not AI. It's pattern matching. And the string "shirt without stripes" matches really good with "shirt with stripes". Levenshtein distance is 3.

If vendors would use the term "shirt without stripes" than it would match great, but they call it "plain shirt".

jchook6y ago

> You have to realize that search is not AI.

Google advertises using BERT natural language models

https://blog.google/products/search/search-language-understa...

> ... but they call it "plain shirt".

Or polka dotted :)

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