Yeah so most of these online home listing sites like Zillow use some third party school ratings API. The one Zillow uses is GreatSchools.
Almost all the home listing sites allow sorting/filtering by properties that are inherent to the home such as size, price, location, number of bedrooms etc.
If you select any given home based on search criteria from the properties mentioned above, data is presented to you on that home such as school rating or even property tax information.
This sounds reasonable because you never selected the home based on a school rating.
I’m trying to figure out if choosing a home based on school rating is considered steering and hence why these sites don’t allow one to sort/filter by school rating, for example.
I don’t really see how it could be steering if the site is showing everyone the same information. Zillow probably disallows the filter for more benign reasons (maybe forcing parents to manually filter by school rating was found to increase engagement or something).
To say I’m impressed by the video and more specifically the algorithm would be the understatement of the century. This is amazing. Please let me buy one :)
The article references Crashalytics and MixPanel as third party services where the data is sent. Aren’t those just tools for error logging and usage measurement? Not sure about the others though.
Can everyone please share their thoughts on how significant of a breakthrough this is, how do you see this being applied in the world of AI, and what are some use cases in the consumer realm?
"However, society may find itself sorely tested if, as seems possible, growth and innovation deliver handsome gains to the skilled, while the rest cling to dwindling employment opportunities at stagnant wages."
As insurmountable as it may seem, people living in and affected by these innovative societies just need to adapt accordingly. It is in our innate nature to do so rather than remain stagnant and perpetuate mediocre jobs that were created as a result of the industrial revolution. People can acquire new skills and leverage themselves to appropriate some of the "handsome gains". Also, globalization would only exacerbate the issue of "dwindling employment opportunities". Nowadays, more and more corporations seek to outsource jobs to other countries due to cheap labor costs.
For most people, it'll be a paradigmatic shift in thinking and seeking ways to contribute to society. Machine learning and artificial intelligence will only serve those who can transcend the repressive jobs which are inherently repetitive and meant for a machine to accomplish as they are the jobs most susceptible to computerization.
Almost all the home listing sites allow sorting/filtering by properties that are inherent to the home such as size, price, location, number of bedrooms etc.
If you select any given home based on search criteria from the properties mentioned above, data is presented to you on that home such as school rating or even property tax information.
This sounds reasonable because you never selected the home based on a school rating.
I’m trying to figure out if choosing a home based on school rating is considered steering and hence why these sites don’t allow one to sort/filter by school rating, for example.