Steam's machine learning powered 'Play Next' goes live

[kalniel]

As the above, it's about recommending unplayed games to you that you already own.

My point of criticism is that it seems to be based on similarity - ie finding games that score the same across a bunch of factors (with the exact correlation determined by ML). However my game choices are as much determined by playing something that's completely different to what I've just played because I want a change. If the ML is trained based on my own play patterns only then it might work (though I doubt there's enough data). If it's trained on the community at large then it'll fail.

[Ttaskmaster]

I know I just shared my thoughts but seriously in what way do you imagine this would not be optional?

Anything that pops up and has no option to disable.
Now I admit I haven't actually looked to see if you can disable the News box that appears when you open Steam, and I imagine this thing will work in a similar way, maybe appearing as you close your current game... It might be good, it might not, though I'd wonder why people would need a recommendation for games they already investigated and knew enough about to actually buy and add to their Library... Are there that manyt people just buying tons of random games, or something?

Either way, I'd like the option of whether or not I get info-boxes with suggestions popping up.