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The Vergecast

In search of the perfect movie recommendation

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Vergecast, we look at why TV and movie recommendations are so complicated, and whether AI might be able to make them better. If Spotify can build infinite playlists of music you’ll like, and YouTube and TikTok always seem to have the perfect thing ready to go, why can’t Netflix or Hulu or Max seem to get it right? If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are a few links to get you started: Movievanders Reelgood The internet is a constant recommendations machine — but it needs you to make it work Netflix’s Greg Peters on a new culture memo and where ads, AI, and games fit in From Scientific America: How Recommendation Algorithms Work—And Why They May Miss the Mark From Google: Multimodal prompting with a 44-minute movie Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:14.9

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0:20.6

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0:25.0

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0:29.0

Welcome to the Virgcast, the flagship podcast of Interest Clusters.

0:36.7

I'm your friend David Pierce and this is the third and final episode in our series

0:41.2

all about AI in the real world.

0:44.2

We talk a lot about AI right now,

0:46.3

including obviously on this show all the time.

0:49.2

But it somehow all feels really abstract and big

0:52.4

and kind of jargony and technical most of the time.

0:55.6

So we wanted to find some places where AI is actually showing up in our real lives.

1:01.0

So far we've talked about using AI as a tool to give everyone perfect memory,

1:05.4

and we've talked with an artist who uses AI to make us think differently about privacy

1:10.0

and surveillance and life itself. Today, I want to talk about movies and more specifically why it's so

1:17.1

hard to figure out what to watch. This is a problem incredibly familiar to anyone who gets their entertainment through streaming, right?

1:25.0

You sit down, you turn on the TV, and then you spend somewhere between 2,000 and 2,000 minutes looking

1:30.1

for something to watch.

1:31.9

No matter where you look, it's just stuff all the way down.

1:36.4

So I open the Netflix app and the first thing it shows me is Muncho Muncho Amor, the legend of Walter

1:40.7

Mercato, which I feel like, no thanks, probably not for me.

1:45.0

No offense to Walter Mercado, I just don't know who that is.

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