How recommended videos grow more extremeHow recommended videos grow more extreme A search for ‘CIA’ produced these results in YouTube. A YouTube search Tuesday for ‘moon landing’ returned videos that suggested humans haven’t landed on the moon. Using a deep neural network makes the recommendations more of a black box to engineers than previous techniques, YouTube recommendations engineer Jim McFadden said last year. If a user selects the first video, the recommended videos are: Searching for ‘flu vaccine’ brings up these video recommendations: 1. ‘Watch This BEFORE You Get a Flu Shot’ (Dr. Eric Z) 2.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 07, 2018 16:21 UTC