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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: observation
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“The problem is the recommender is trying to figure out what to feed, and it’s only just working off titles and descriptions that people were writing about their own videos.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- observation
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…Definitely. Pattern recognizers in data. So YouTube had a big problem at this time, which was that people would upload these videos and there are tons of videos being uploaded to YouTube, but people are really bad at describing what is in the videos that they’re uploaded. YouTube is trying to become more of a destination site, trying to get people to watch more videos, trying to build a feed, increase dwell time, et cetera. The problem is the recommender is trying to figure out what to feed, and it’s only just working off titles and descriptions that people were writing about their own videos. And whether you’re searching for a video or they’re trying to figure out what video to recommend next, they need to know what the video’s about.…
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