Recommendation Systems and Filter Bubbles
How recommendation systems work: YouTube, Netflix, and shop websites track what you click and find patterns; filter bubbles; the difference between helpful suggestions and manipulation
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“Does your child understand why YouTube keeps suggesting similar videos to ones they've watched, and could they explain how the recommendation system works?”
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- Activity. How recommendation systems work: YouTube, Netflix, and shop websites track what you click and find patterns; filter bubbles; the difference between helpful suggestions and manipulation
What to notice. Explain how YouTube or Netflix decides what to suggest next • Describe what a 'filter bubble' is (only seeing things similar to what you already like) • Give one benefit and one risk of recommendation systems
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Does your child understand why YouTube keeps suggesting similar videos to ones they've watched, and could they explain how the recommendation system works?
How recommendation systems work: YouTube, Netflix, and shop websites track what you click and find patterns; filter bubbles; the difference between helpful suggestions and manipulation
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- Explain how YouTube or Netflix decides what to suggest next
- Describe what a 'filter bubble' is (only seeing things similar to what you already like)
- Give one benefit and one risk of recommendation systems
“Does your child understand why YouTube keeps suggesting similar videos to ones they've watched, and could they explain how the recommendation system works?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Computing
- Domain
- Artificial Intelligence
- Age range
- Ages 7–9