Why are tags considered binary?

Posted by zoe
Mar 31, 2017 at 02:01 PM

Lothar Scholz wrote:
I was only thinking about the user experience.
> >At the moment i consider tagging information as a an already learned
>task which is performed by people. I guess we technical guys often total
>underestimate the resistance of people to do more complicated things. So
>i think adding extra attributes will take way to long that it becames a
>habit.
>

There appears to be a major trend in the direction of machine learning and neural networks for identifying and classifying “stuff.” For example, if you use Google Photos, you can search for “dogs” and it will return your photos which contain dogs. As this technology improves, the user’s own tagging will probably be reserved for esoteric or specialized vocabulary. Of course, this technology also requires users to give up their privacy rights to their data in order to help train the software; but the number of people who will not consent to this is likely to remain a small minority.