Spotify may start using Sliding Doors-style ‘what if?’ AI to suggest your new music.
Not content with the recent and highly specific niche mix rollout, Spotify?
Think there must be a better way to understand our deepest unspoken musical wants and desires?
Personally, I’d just love for you to make good on your Spotify HiFi promise, (and I can take or leave the TikTok-style revamp, thank you) but it seems you have other plans.
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The concept I’m about to share is a cerebral one and something most of us likely have a tenuous grasp of, at best.
It’s all about counterfactuals (opens in new tab), causation, and causal inference in machine-learning mathematics (so, if something didn’t happen, but what if it had happened?
Now add that to math!) and Spotify is all set to use it to help the streaming giant suggest your next favorite album or playlist.
Think of the movie Sliding Doors (opens in new tab) but with your music collection, and you’ve got the basic idea – but the concept is a complex one and no mistake.
Foreign [Music] Spotify may start using sliding door Style what if AI to suggest your new Music not content with the recent and Highly specific Niche mix rollout Spotify think there must be a better way To understand our deepest unspoken Musical wants and desires personally I Just love for you to make good on your Spotify HiFi promise and I can take or Leave The Tick Tock style revamp thank You but it seems you have other plans to Stay up to date with latest top stories Make sure to subscribe to this YouTube Channel by clicking the button above This video the concept I'm about to Share is a cerebral one and something Most of us likely have a tenuous grasp Of at best it's all about Counterfactuals opens a new tab Causation and causal inference in Machine learning mathematics so if Something didn't happen but what if it Had happened now add that to math and Spotify is all set to use it to help the Streaming giant suggest your next Favorite album or playlist think of the Movie sliding doors opens a new tab but With your music collection and you've Got the basic idea but the concept is a Complex one and no mistake what actually Is it though as reported by the Bi-monthly massachusetts-based Tech
Publication MIT technology review opens A new tab a team of researchers at Spotify has built a new kind of machine Learning model which for the first time Captures the complex math behind Counterfactual analysis and apparently It can be used to identify the causes of Past events and predict the effects of Future ones how does that translate to The 90s mix you stream from 1am till 4 AM last night after sharing a bottle of Wine with a friend and possibly texting Your ex well if Spotify knows about it It could improve the accuracy of Automated decision making especially Personalized recommendations well done If you noticed I just put two Jamiroquai Songs in a subhead we'll probably get Similar Acid Jazz playlists being to us Later high five to you now let's go up a Level stay with me and we can relax with A nice chill Miss later the whole Counterfactual math approach is inspired By Einstein's light cones think of a Futures cone where the narrowest circle Created by the thinnest cone is probable Then plausible going out and out as the Cone gets wider towards possible and Finally preposterously highly unlikely Got that good now the basic theory Behind counterfactuals is to ask what Would have happened in a situation had Certain things been different if Helen Occaguine of Paltrow had neither made
The train nor missed the train in Sliding doors in 1998 but it instead Decided to go see a movie and ended up Spilling popcorn all over the true love Of her life by altering the correct Variables it should be possible to Distinguish genuine causation from Association and coincidence so we narrow The cone all sound a bit Pie in the Sky I agree I for example might have crammed The same Falco songs into my brain on Repeat for two months in 2009 because I Was dancing to them for work what does That say about me Spotify perhaps it was Not my music of choice perhaps I also Listened to Ella Fitzgerald on vinyl to Chill out did you know about that what Of it but see where it gets truly mind Melting is that counter factual AI works On the outcome of an event even if the Event never actually happened the Spotify team has tested the model out Using real world case studies including One looking at the health implications Of a water source in Kenya and it really Is the future Spotify is not the only Tech Giant Galloping towards machine Learning models with the ability to Perform cause and effect reasoning meta LinkedIn Amazon and tick tock's owner Bidadins have also been working on Similar technology meta is apparently Using causal inference in a machine Learning tool to manage how many
Notifications and what kind Instagram Can send its users and still keep them Hooked will it be any better than you Like fontaine's DC so have a bang on Yard act when Spotify implements it Impossible to say do I want it no no but Then I look upon modify as an old friend From simpler times rather than one of The best music streaming services of 2023 also I've been known to listen to The same 1984 XTC song on Loop for 90 Minutes wake up if you're wondering just To appreciate the backing vocals I do Not care to know what Spotify thinks of That Foreign [Music]
