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Google Adding 'Bard' Chatbot to Google Search, While Microsoft Debuts Updated ChatGPT Technology for Bing
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Many friends already use ChatGPT for their daily work, this for sure will be a revolution but not sure in a good or bad way.
I'm using it on a daily basis as well. It's pretty good. My use cases are:
1. Generating basic scripts to solve problems I have. Usually the right bits get thrown together and I just have to fix up a few things. It's like having a junior developer at hand.
2. Filling in blurb in powerpoint presentations that I have to do. I also used one to write a reference for someone recently as an experiment.
3. Consolidating info into one place. It's pretty good at coming up with rational answers to comparison questions for example on high level topics or solutions or rationale to decline or approve an idea.
I'm not sure that the end game for this class of technology is going to be good however. This is just the first competent implementation rather than a big technology demonstrator. Judging by how the human race handles new technology generally I expect this will be used mostly for bad.
What I'm expecting to see out of it is an arms race between the big technology companies. I've written about this in detail somewhere else which I won't link here as it's directly tied to my real identity. Fundamentally this technology can be weaponised very easily. Content generation is the hill on which we die. It's already a major problem. Google are having trouble discriminating between ML content farms and quality sources and even the big news agencies and vendors are using it to generate content. Google of course need to step up their game there so they will use competing technology, just announced, to do the same thing. Ultimately knowledge seeking will be divided into a few large peers who will be building their training and information corpus on top of content generated by other tools doing the same thing. Much like a jpeg that has been encoded over and over and over again, errors will creep in and the outcome will be a signal-to-noise ratio which completely compromises the whole system and makes all sources of information useless.
This will lead to an Idiocracy style dark age of decaying information. Of course this situation will be manipulated as people work out how the models work, leading to politically controlled outcomes and after some horrific human sacrifice as always, the technology will be regulated. Following from this, there will be a new enlightenment era which will involve carefully curated and moderated content, much like an old fashioned encyclopaedia (or Encarta!). Not wikipedia though. That will have burned with the rest of the world.
AI is a fundamental technology that these companies will bake into their OS's as online and software worlds continue to converge. Be in no doubt Apple will miss the boat here if it doesn't move soon.
Pretty sure this was the origin story of Skynet that was cut from “Terminator”
The problem is not the village fool. Lots of smart people live in villages and farmers tend to be more science literate than city dwellers.
The problem is the conspiracy and quackery space is a multi billion dollar industry. It’s not run by village fools, it is run by wealthy urbanites who know how to scam people with misinformation.
They work together to misinform the public, gather donations from their followers, sell books, run pyramid schemes, sell useless supplements, and then with that wealth they organize even better.
It’s a grift by the wealthy for the wealthy.
Wikipedia and ”AI” won’t solve the problem with these grifters. They need to be penalized. But our ‘free speech’ society won’t do it because they turn around and say these penalities prove their conspiracy theories are true. They claim the ‘secret powers’ are trying to silence them.
They are already angry at ChatGPT and claiming it is ‘woke’ just because it debunks and dunks on conspiracy theories. Their response is to try to build “AI” trained on quackery, conspiracy theories and racism.
Just what I've always wanted, even more Siri integration. Watch Apple remove the address bar and from now on, I'll have to say out loud "Hey Siri, show me cat videos on YouTube." 😅
Google stock drops 8% after Bard caught giving an incorrect answer.
What did they expect? That language models in search engines will have magical god-like powers of intelligence and always be right?
It’s a fricken software program not a universal galaxy brain space ghost.
Software is buggy and will always be buggy.
There are millions of possible questions and millions of answers and it will be impossible for this to be error-free.
It always requires humans to fact check and double check. That’s why Wikipedia has been quite successful at weeding out bad info and spam.
What did they expect? That language models in search engines will have magical god-like powers of intelligence and always be right?
It’s a fricken software program not a universal galaxy brain space ghost.
Software is buggy and will always be buggy.
There are millions of possible questions and millions of answers and it will be impossible for this to be error-free.
It always requires humans to fact check and double check. That’s why Wikipedia has been quite successful at weeding out bad info and spam.
Honestly, I don't want to use third party browsers on my mac and iPhone; ok that this bew bing search can be accessed from any browser (just like chatGPT), but I feel an apple integration will be even better for general use.
Cite your sources for those claims, please.
Search is broken because search engines like Google exist only to make money in the advertising business, obstructing useful results by promoting marketing and advertising, and because they won’t work to avoid BS “search engine optimization” that results in useless garbage websites being suggested as search results.
As advertising and capitalism effectively rule over all, what’s to stop the same problems existing in a search tool providing “chat bots”?
It would also seem to be problematic to use an interface that creates laborious output than one that provides simplified output.
The problem was engineered to abuse the original tools. How would this new tool avoid that being done to it?
That doesn’t seem like an explanation. Why would I want to have a conversation with a chat bot instead of directly providing me links to the content a search engine was meant to locate?
You’re saying it would do better for your mom with a natural language parser? How do you envision the differences between search input between the existing and the new interfaces? At this point, I’m often already using natural language queries to get to forums where someone else has made the same query. The rest of the time, I don’t want full sentences, because that’s a waste of time and effort.
And instead of evaluating the value and correctness or relevance of an “answer” via its context in a forum, we may get an hallucination of confidently wrong info from an algorithm that we cannot change with our own input to help future askers of same questions.
We already get garbage “answers” to frequent questions now on major internet search engines. It’s not likely these will be improved by wrapping a chat bot around it. It cannot think.
These companies don’t want to put effort into manually curating the quick answers, and a chat bot will seemingly justify that preference, but it can’t improve the output when it has no actual intelligence. It may merely obscure the context and just make the situation worse.
Ask grandma, brutha. Really old folks don't understand search engines only need a few keywords. Granny typically type in complete sentences in the search bar.🧐
Smaug is that you?😁 Still salty about the black arrow incident are we?🤭
I tried to use it for the first time today and the website was too busy. Then it briefly asked me to log in or create an account; I already have 180+ accounts of which I’m keeping track. 🤷🏽♂️
It's more about using the right words in general and being efficient. But it can still filter out articles and prepositions etc... I've already done ridiculously long searches like What was the movie where blah blah blah... and the first result will be the answer.