From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
This morning, I had the opportunity to present an invited talk at Walmart’s AI Summit. Not surprisingly, a lot of folks were excited about the potential of ChatGPT...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 5, 2023 at 04:23 PM
Since Medium decided to allow AI-generated content as long as it’s clearly disclosed as such, I decided to give it a whirl.Prompt EngineeringMy first prompt was...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 26, 2023 at 08:25 PM
Searching for relevant results has been compared to finding a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, most searchers have it easier than that, since haystacks don’t index...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 18, 2023 at 12:43 PM
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2023 is off to a great start for you.Are you excited to kick off the new year by learning more about search?If so, you’re in luck...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 9, 2023 at 09:01 AM
In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the phrase “uncanny valley” (不気味の谷 in the original Japanese) to denote the phenomenon that when a machine seems close-but...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 7, 2022 at 12:22 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 28, 2022 at 09:02 AM
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 22, 2022 at 09:01 AM
With apologies to Bruno, we don’t talk about resume screening. But we should.Resume screening is usually the first step in the hiring process for active candidates...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 29, 2022 at 11:37 AM
Technical interviewing is hard, but that’s no excuse for it to be so terrible. Since candidates generally don’t have much leverage to negotiate the interview process...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 27, 2022 at 01:20 PM
I started writing about query understanding in 2016, working my way up from low-level concerns like language identification and character normalization to higher...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 24, 2022 at 09:01 AM
When we index content for search, it’s natural to think in terms of documents. But searchers aren’t necessarily looking for documents. They’re looking for information...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 9, 2022 at 02:49 PM
This publication is a series of posts devoted to content understanding. Each post is self-contained, but there is a natural progression. If you’d like to read them...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 9, 2022 at 01:56 PM
Many platforms, particularly social media sites and ecommerce marketplaces, establish policies to determine what they consider acceptable content. These platforms...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 4, 2022 at 12:19 PM
In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminalClaude...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 12, 2022 at 09:03 AM
Despite its importance, content quality is hard to define without devolving into circularity. What we mean by content quality is a measure or collection of measures...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 10, 2022 at 11:50 AM
One of the challenges facing search applications is that users aren’t necessarily searching for documents. To put it another way, the unit of content that a user...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 25, 2022 at 09:03 AM
Search engines are at the heart of the digital world. We interact with them on the outside, using search engines to find information, products, and more. But they...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 19, 2022 at 01:20 PM
Earlier this year, Grant Ingersoll and I kicked off a 4-week co:rise course on Search with Machine Learning. We covered search fundamentals, and then went on to...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 11, 2022 at 09:03 AM
Content classification and annotation offer useful approaches for content understanding, recognizing whether a piece of content is about a particular topic or mentions...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 21, 2022 at 09:03 AM
Content understanding requires both holistic and reductionist approaches, just like query understanding. The previous post focused on content classification asentity...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 17, 2022 at 09:02 AM