Last spring, CellarTracker, a wine-collection app, built an AI-powered sommelier to make unvarnished wine recommendations based on a person’s palate. The problem was the chatbot was too nice.
“It’s just very polite, instead of just saying, ‘It’s really unlikely you’ll …
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