In the last few days, people have started talking about Artifact. This is the new social network from the creators of Instagram that aims to become or compete with Twitter due to the way it works, although it has a rather distinctive feature, which is the fact that it has an AI that enhances its operation.
Artifact is not a social network in which to publish photos or videos, it is a social network intended for the consumption of journalistic information, so there are plenty of articles and the news. What is the need for an AI? As commented by artifactthe AI will act as a manager that will be in charge of learning from the preferences of the users.
These preferences will mean that users will have better news recommendations. Understanding that it is a social network is quite complicated since, at the end of the day, it is more of a manager of news what other thing. But it is interesting to see that AI is not only valid for creating images or texts.
At the operational level, the way in which Artifact will recommend the news that the AI considers to be most interesting. Of course, it has a certain trick so that the recommendations are increasingly precise. According to the creators of the application, there is a minimum number of news that must be read to achieve this.
Artifact is here and you can download the news app that uses AI
The number is 25 news every two weeks, being a somewhat low figure considering that it is 14 days. Being this number the minimum that must be read for the AI to learn the tastes of the users, the truth is that it is quite reasonable. Of course, it is not the only one of its intelligent characteristics.
help the AI It is of vital importance, in fact, if you hold down on a piece of news, you can indicate that it is not to your liking and, therefore, the AI will learn that this particular type of news may not be interesting enough for the user and stop recommending them or start doing it less frequently.
Artifact has a most interesting concept, now we will have to wait to see the evolution of this application and social network that uses AI to help users users to find interests in articles. Leaving this aside, the application can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.