Google Assistant app now uses your searches to make personalized recommendations [Sarah Perez @ TechCrunch]
Google is revamping its two-year old “Snapshot” feature in Google Assistant for iOS and Android. The company in 2018 had first introduced Google Assistant Snapshot as a...
Typewise taps 1m to build an offline next-word prediction-engine [Natasha Lomas @TechCrunch]
While really handy, recommendation systems for (next) word prediction are quite a niche, and I am not sure if there has ever been a research...
Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built...
Google´s SmartReply comes to YouTube [Rami Al-Rfou @ Google AI Blog]
Google´s SmartReply is a handy feature in Gmail and some other applications, and it can be seen as a recommender system for sentence completion. Now,...
An NLU-Powered Tool to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Literature [Google AI]
Not exactly a recommender system but more a search engine. Yet, this new tool by Google might be interesting to some in the recommender system...
It’s No Joke: Recommender System Beats Humans At Making You Laugh [Michael Yeomans et al. / Diana Gerdeman @ Forbes]
Michael Yeomans et al. published already in October 2019 the paper Making Sense of Recommendations but I just stumbled upon it today, when Dina Gerdeman...
Covid-19 Open Source Project Recommender [Adam Barnhard@TowardsDataScience]
Adam Barnhard “built a COVID-19 Project Recommendation System to help people discover open source projects in the community. [He had] been inspired by how much...
Watchworthy’s personalized TV recommendation app will help you find your next binge [TechCrunch]
Ranker, an online publisher that turns crowdsourced lists and fan rankings into a data business, is now turning its attention to the world of streaming...