http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/03/humans-and-machines-collaborators-or-competitors/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:17:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/03/humans-and-machines-collaborators-or-competitors/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Daniel Tunkelang Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:59:37 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=885#comment-1055 Exactly: if machines are going to make us smarter, they have to improve their communication skills. Exactly: if machines are going to make us smarter, they have to improve their communication skills.

]]> http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/03/humans-and-machines-collaborators-or-competitors/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 jeremy Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:02:03 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=885#comment-1021 I totally agree as well. I severly dislike being coddled by a search algorithm that thinks it knows better than me what I want, or how I want it. I would much rather have an algorithm that augmented my ability to express my information need, and then not only gave me results, but gave me explanatory feedback on why those results were retrieved, so as to allow me to understand just how well the machine understood and handled what I had expressed. I totally agree as well. I severly dislike being coddled by a search algorithm that thinks it knows better than me what I want, or how I want it. I would much rather have an algorithm that augmented my ability to express my information need, and then not only gave me results, but gave me explanatory feedback on why those results were retrieved, so as to allow me to understand just how well the machine understood and handled what I had expressed.

]]> http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/03/humans-and-machines-collaborators-or-competitors/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 Daniel Lemire Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:20:41 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=885#comment-1019 I say it often. I don't care for smart machines. I want machines to make me smarter. I say it often. I don’t care for smart machines. I want machines to make me smarter.

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