What does the next generation of modern social networks look like?

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by oogabooga13 • 3 years ago

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It could just be a feeling, but now more than ever seems like a ripe time for a shift in traditional social networking. The wheels have been greased and users are prepared to move. What does the future look like?

PaulHoule• 3 years ago

Trend 1: Look at Tik Tok and other apps from Asia. I see a lot of papers on arXiv go by on recommendation technology from people from China and India that are very advanced, almost like a "missile gap". The fact is that Amazon, Facebook and Google are like GM, Ford and Chrysler in the 1970s and very much trapped by their attitudes and business models.

Trend 2: I would say "anti-social media" that is using A.I. to curate your own feed. I am working on a smart RSS reader that looks like Tik Tok for text and had an AUC of 71% w/ a classical model and gets 76% with an embedding, and will probably do better when I am making fine-tuned transformers reliably but Tik Tok is getting a touch better than 80% so I feel pretty good about it. My system takes more data to learn than Tik Tok does but someone who dedicated can definitely do it.

What does the next generation of modern social networks look like?

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