Post #219683 by mbonga on Thu, Mar 9, 2006 7:37 AM

Actually, I had a link about this project in the art thread in this Beyond Tiki section a few days ago:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=18671&forum=6&5

As I keep saying, this mapping of personal tastes to attributes is the upcoming thing. There are numerous patents and patent applications out now for such algorithms for virtual jukeboxes. All this is related to data mining, which is a modern offshoot of artificial intelligence. It's just an extension of eBay recommendations, Amazon.com recommendations, cookies, and so on, applied to music. It's exciting, but since nobody solved the representation problem and knowledge bottleneck problems in A.I., all those problems have been carried into this new technology as well, which is why you're getting recommendations for New Kids.