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[–] [email protected] 159 points 5 months ago

For a brief moment in the beta for all this, it basically just summarized the top two or three reputable results, and attached a link to where it got the data.

They should have just left it at that, and not started mixing in random blogs and social media sites.
The ability to summarize the Wikipedia article and a random university professors page where they list every fact known to man about pine trees or something was actually helpful.

If I want the AIs best guess about how to fuck up a pizza, I just go to the site where I can ask it. Bad advice when searching is just shit.
A tldr for "what is turpentine" is actually helpful.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Trailer Trash be all like: “SEE AH TOLD Y’ALL IT WAS GOOD FOR THE BABY! GOOGLE DONE SAYS SO!!!!”

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (5 children)

SearXNG: poor man’s Kagi (one seemingly reputable instance)

On iOS, I set my default search to DuckDuckGo, and enabled Hyperweb on the DDG domain to redirect to SearXNG. I use a Google Images bookmark saved as a favorite when I need images (SearXNG results inferior even when using Google as the sole engine).

I anecdotally suspect Kagi of astroturfing btw, but after some free trials it seems to be about the best Google alternative - gotta be [earning like] a [US-based] knowledge worker though, or really care about search.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'm kinda surprised he isn't bound by some sort of NDA.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago (1 children)

AI told him he could ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So excited for AI written TOS that are just around the corner.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was just talking to my friend anf his job is going to use AI to parse contracts to understand who is Liable for X, whose responsibility is Y, etc.

So yeah no we're close.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Can't wait for that one to go horribly wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

These are all general opinion statements. There aren't any verifiable facts like, "on this date at a meeting with x we discussed how AI project y is myopic and non-user-centered."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Some companies have you sign things after leaving.

Obviously, when you start laying people off, or do stupid shit like stack ranking, some people are going to walk out and just blab about all the dumb shit your employer does/did - and they're heroes for doing so.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Every tech company I worked at, NDAs were a doc to not share code or research discoveries.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's what happens when you throw your engineers out for business majors at a tech company

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

It told me today that Harvard did research to show 165 degrees killed H1N1 in milk. The reference? Recommended cooking temp for chicken.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean if this is Google's new Google+ moment there's only one person we can call upon in our time of need:

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

I legitimately can't stop laughing at this omg

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a facebook reel in which allegedly a doctor recommends to drink at least 3-5 coffees a day

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Me when self medicating adhd

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Self-medicating ADHD sufferers recommend consuming 3-5 entire pots of coffee a day, and a treat of another 150-300mg before bed

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The difference is that Google+ was actually a wonderful product.

But a couple years down the line Google did what Google does and destroyed it from the inside making it worse and worse until it was just a shell of what it started out being.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If you were into tech, the tech people were amazing. Yonatan Zunger comes to mind. He was a backend engineer at Google and the guy was great.

I also met many people who are still friends, many of whom became real life friends too.

I even got an amazing job thanks to my contacts on g+.

The feed layout was awesome. The fact that everything got fed to rss. The fact that you could tailor posts so easily. God I miss it. Only social media I've ever really been a part of.

It was wonderful ♥️

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that your experience isn't valid, I am merely providing a counterpoint based upon my own experience.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

If Google tries to lock me in, watch me lock me out.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Fucking lmao

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (7 children)

How do you get the AI results on google.com? When I search for anything, it shows a summary and then all the results, sponsors, etc... Nothing is tagged as "AI".

(I never visit google so forgive me if this has an obvious answer)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

I think it's still in A/B testing stages, 80% of my searches don't include the AI but it pops up occasionally. I also notice it more often on my phone, and rarely on my desktop where I'm not signed in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can opt into it and other beta technologies at Google Labs.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I liked that insider peek from Jenson - well I liked reading all of this, but especially that:-).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Google Plus was a good platform that was horribly managed.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I think it is interesting to point out that AI will be good, maybe too good. It isn’t right now, it’s a novelty in the early stages of such mass adoption that a lot of the consequences are just starting to appear.

The phones owned by Gen A in 40 years will have a useful, realistic, and default AI assistant. It just sucks that the development of this technology is only driven by late-stage capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is especially interesting, considering he left Google 3 years ago, according to his website. It's a bit misleading to put this old tweet up alongside a recent Google screenshot.

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