Only at the BBC

Machines are going to watch and listen to old BBC programmes, so they can work out what to recommend to us punters who've shared the deepest and darkest sides of our broadcasting preferences by signing up for iPlayer and BBC Sounds. That's bound to work, eh ?  Nonetheless, a bunch of John Lewis vouchers to the wordsmith who came up with 'enrichment engines', only previously used in Formula 1.

"We have ambitions to increase our understanding of our content catalogue using machine learning based enrichment engines to generate new metadata."

"The Platform team are developing two content enrichment capabilities; enrichment engines and infrastructure to support enrichment engines. The enrichment engines need to generate metadata based on inputs such as transcripts, audio and video for use in recommender systems, search engines and more. The supporting infrastructure needs to enable builders of engines to be able to easily integrate them into the BBC’s content pipeline, allowing for experimentation and measurement of impact."