Keep in mind that if it happened that you had an AI that could quickly scope people's desires out, the application you would want to be selling would be:
"The 'it gives you what you want' thing"
Rather than any kind of fancy description. It wouldn't be the description that sold customers, it would the fact that it really, actually gave them what they want effortlessly that would sell them. And course, news is gives you a lot information to easily parse. So from the "I have a program that's unique in its language comprehension" perspective, this makes perfect sense. If the product was more specialized, it quite possibly would not have as much scope to demonstrate that it could choose for you.
Of course, whether AI could possibly work for this is another question but I can understand why he'd want to try this route.
Keep in mind that if it happened that you had an AI that could quickly scope people's desires out, the application you would want to be selling would be:
"The 'it gives you what you want' thing"
Rather than any kind of fancy description. It wouldn't be the description that sold customers, it would the fact that it really, actually gave them what they want effortlessly that would sell them. And course, news is gives you a lot information to easily parse. So from the "I have a program that's unique in its language comprehension" perspective, this makes perfect sense. If the product was more specialized, it quite possibly would not have as much scope to demonstrate that it could choose for you.
Of course, whether AI could possibly work for this is another question but I can understand why he'd want to try this route.