To be fair, this could be very make or break for Google. If someone else solves AI search properly, and they can't catch up, it would be really bad for them. G+/Facebook were another market completely so it wasn't really taking any of their current market share.
Invite only, then when they didn't have enough users, they tried to force it on everyone in conjunction with trying to force them to use their real names on YouTube. The whole thing was just an absolute master class in fucking up a launch from start to finish.
The difference between G+ and now is that Google search is actually bad now and they need to do something to fix it, but they just did the completely wrong thing...
I am a software developer, this story isn't really about that though. When I was first becoming interested in coding I was reading about vr and ar and how it would be this huge multi billion dollar market in the next few years and I thought that sounded awesome, as it could enhance our lived experiences with info for the curious, or decorate the real world with computer generated architecture, sculpture, even some ads to pay for the whole thing. I said I'm gonna get into computer programming and then transition into vr/ar once I learn a few things.
Of course this didn't pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn't innovate. When they weren't immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down. Just another big tech grift, like cryptocurrency and now AI. Ai is probably the worst example of all because it got pushed out to soak up a bunch of excess cloud computing when crypto crashed, and now its a huge real estate scheme as well since there's a big rush to build data centers to handle the artificial demand. You wanna know the next big bubble to bet against? Its ai and all the related industries.
It requires massive amounts of computing power to accomplish the most mundane tasks, which require electricity created by burning fossil fuels. All so your boss can spend less time writing emails letting you know you've been laid off, and political advisors can mass produce legislation to take away your rights.
Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down.
The way advanced capitalism can't even grow a product before trying to strangle it for every last penny is all that saves us from special Black Mirror levels of hell.
Yes, the sense of humor is still somewhat limited in AIs. Anyway, Andi is not designed to tell jokes, but rather to give reliable answers to questions and this it does quite well..
I won't say they're not making it up, but their screenshot has "AI overview", yours doesn't. It is probable that "normal" google gives different results than "AI" Google.
No, that’s a card that’s been standard in Google searches for years. It basically copy pastes an excerpt from an article written by someone else.
The AI card is an entirely new feature that is being rolled out where an LLM attempts to fill the same roll without deliberately copying a third party source.
Uuuuum ok, JK Rowling is a shitty person who does her best to be on Twitter 24/7 with the other animals. Bigot, competly enamored with her own creation, and totally believing everyone who's ever said she's a genius. Ego driven nightmare.
What does that have do to with you being objectively wrong and kind of an asshole in this thread? You know it all, terminally online jackasses never fail to out yourselves with your goal post moving.
Oh I get it... Your ego is a problem for you personally as well, right?
Wow, you are really butthurt by being wrong about the Google AI...
Oh my God, I see, you are conflating the fact that I confirmed that people will call you a transphobe for buying the Harry Potter game by calling me a transphobe. Then I think went back and forth with a terminally online twatter (was that you?) who really wanted me to engage in a debate I wasn't having.
I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, clearly this made much more of an impact on you than it did on me (I think this was like months ago). Yes, I don't agree with performative boycotts that have no true impact beyond preaching to the choir, that includes all the fucking incel stellar blade shit. I think I also pointed out that by engaging in these performative boycotts, you just encourage other people you don't agree with to also engage in performative boycotts.
Again, so crazy you got so butthurt that you had to drag a discussion we must have a quarter ago that didn't impact me at all.
I mean, you're getting the message, clicking reply, and typing out your reply, I'm genuinely amazed at you ability to both interact with this text but but ignore it. It just seems like so much more work than blocking.
Your's is a "featured snippet", which is where it highlights a relevant portion from a top result.
The AI results have the AI synthesize a new sentence or set of paragraphs answering the question using data from multiple sources.
They're different results because you didn't seem to get the AI search results. After making it available to everyone they've been hit with a bunch of weird results and have started scrambling to manually remove the particularly strange ones as they crop up.
