Smart speakers make passive listeners

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 11:40 in Mathematics & Economics

People explore less when they get recommendations from voice-based platforms such as Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri, making it more likely that they’ll hear options chosen by an algorithm than those they might actually prefer. A study by Cornell researchers, exploring the broader implications of how content will be discovered as smart speakers grow more […]

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