Google Helps AI Learn To Book Flights on the Web (zdnet.com) 38
Researchers at Google's AI labs created a couple of novel neural networks that can succeed in navigating web forms, such as an online flight-booking site. Although baby steps at the moment, the program succeeds as well or better than some models trained using human demonstrations of pointing and clicking. From a report: In a new paper from the team, they trained a neural network to understand the structure of web pages and the choices it can make when filling out forms in an airline ticket booker, or interacting with a social media site. The work broadly employs the same category of machine learning as Google's Go-winning AlphaZero software, what is known as "reinforcement learning." In RL, a neural network develops strategies of steps to take at each stage of trying to solve a problem as it receives rewards for good choices. The researchers figured out a way to train a neural network without being given human examples of how to navigate an online booking form. The approach makes the task of learning webpages and social media networks more "scalable," they write, where the possible combinations of states and actions can reach into the tens of millions. The point is not necessarily to actually book a flight; it's more an exercise in how a neural network can find solutions to a problem with numerous variables, where human guidance, or "supervision," in training is infeasible.
HOPE!! (Score:3)
Hopefully, this will help Al score more touch downs then ever before.
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Scalping (Score:2)
I'm just curious about how AI can fill an airplane seat. Otherwise, what's the point of AI booking a seat?
If an AI can book a seat, a travel agent can get cheaper/hotter tickets before others and resell them.
I've already seen some ticket places that offer presale tickets for events that are not yet selling anything, where they give you a rough idea of what the agent will be trying to buy for you...
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This is not because tickets have been scalped, it's because of the way tickets are allocated to events.
This is how tickets are allocated, and no, Ticketmaster will never tell you this.
First, a venue's seats is split into thirds. The first third of a venue's seats are reserved exclusively for entourage tickets. These a
Not Teaching Is Nuts (Score:2)
What is the silly function of an AI that can not be taught, it has no function. You teach, you set the path but they learn they take that path where they will. Creation of entry points and essential patterns of interaction are essential and any AI has to be capable of following them. The function of AI, it sounds more like they are trying to create an illusion of life, going right off track. They have fooled themselves into being part of the AI, filling out a form, what is the right way, you keep doing it u
Here's an idea Google (Score:2)
If your AI can navigate web forms, teach it to solve your fucking Google CAPTCHAs which are the bane of the internet.
So did they discover (Score:3)
where AI wants to fly to?
This is not AI (Score:2)
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Indeed. For any sane definition of "AI", "AI" does not exist. There are now people saying that yes, this thing is AI, but human-like intelligence would be AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). But that is just sophistry with words as "AI" as used here strongly implies AGI. Watering down the term "Intelligence" and hoping nobody knows to keep the hype going is just dishonest. Although I would be ok with "AI" being erased as term and replaced by AGI. Then it would at least be obvious that there is nothing li
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Was it something they had a long search history for?
A 24 hour start with no past interest.
Something they do every year?
Thats the ad magic.
"baby steps at the moment" (Score:2)
And that is just the whole AI lie in a nutshell: All the present approaches and all presently known approaches will never do more than that, because they lack the "I" in "AI". Intelligence requires insight and understanding, not long lists of detailed if-then instructions.