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Google Launches Dedicated AI Mode in Search
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I have bad news for you then.I have bad news for you
I'm actually very interested in how this pans out, as during my whole life, I've never seen so many countries around the world, employing the very brightest humans on the entire planet, throwing as much money as you could possible think of, in the pursuit of one goal (creating AI)
Such a thing has really never happened before, and (love it or not) it's so exciting to be alive when the brightest humans from all around the globe focus on a single? target.
Countries ain’t doing this for the goodness or oneness of mankind. They’re throwing so much money and manpower into AI with one goal in mind: supremacy.
The country with the best AI will be the country with the most power in the world. This is about power.
This ain’t love for humanity.
And there are plenty of other goals the world should rally around before AI, like staving off the climate catastrophe (which energy-hungry AI will only accelerate) or making sure all human beings on the planet have free healthcare.
Those AI summaries on top are the best thing on Google right now.
Anything is better than clicking on 4 sites with a paywall, 3 with thousands of cookies, 2 content farms and a partridge in a pear tree before knowing how many eggs I need for a carbonara.
Anything is better than clicking on 4 sites with a paywall, 3 with thousands of cookies, 2 content farms and a partridge in a pear tree before knowing how many eggs I need for a carbonara.
It annoys me to get AI results above normal search results even if I did not request AI results.
It has happened lots of times: space exploration, nuclear power development, global telecommunications and the internet, renewable energy, medical research, military development.
AI is indeed coming to stay in one way or another, but what you have typed underestimates human capabilities and is a bit ignorant.
Had you used AI to maybe do a little research, you'd have realized this of course.
AI is very useful the problem is when it's in the hands of big corporations and authoritarian regimes and used for nefarious purposes like mass surveillance and a tool of oppression and brainwashing.
And currently, it's mostly big corporations and authoritarian regimes that are propagating AI
Things like this keep me sane...
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Siri only wishes it was half as good as this "polished crap"
More hallucinations for everyone! AI has already made my job a PITA when people come in looking for nonexistent discounts, or completely fictional services!
Whee!
Whee!
I've seen that summary wrong so many times that I ignore it now.
I use DDG with my personal devices, but have to use Google at work.
You have hit the nail on the head, lots of people here bash Google etal for data mining, but seem more than happy to pay apple more money for less, and give apple their data willy nilly.
They do care about security and privacy, but obviously they care about money more.
Apple is a corporation. Not the sponge for our feel-good wish casting for virtue.
I've been using AI for a while now and I think I know pretty well when it gets things wrong but you're right it's kinda bad.
Still 10 times better than normal googling though IMHO. The amount of time I waste and the factually wrong answers I find make normal googling just unusable in most scenarios.
I use Duck duck Go and have done so for a few years, I used to use Scroggle until Google got on their case. DDG also have this Ai rubbish, Eveyone seems to be jumping onto the band wagon.
From what I have seen or heard, about AI, I don't think I would want to trust it.
That is the same with Duck duck Go, it can be disabled, but when i turn my computer off, it kills the cookies, so the AI gets turned back on.
DDG does have AI, but they offer a switch to turn it off and it doesn't nag you nor turn itself back on.
At this point I think every tech company needs to have the Jurassic Park line "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should," plastered across every wall of every office and cubicle; and permanently tatoo'd to the foreheads of all the C-level execs, both forward and backward, so they can read it whenever they look in the mirror
They’ll announce it, apologize they flopped on it, officially release it 3 years from now but only for iPhone 19 Pro Max Ultra Fold.
I don't care who it's from... there is NO SUCH THING AS "AI".
It's Eliza 2.0 at best, and it's an insane waste of energy and resources to reinvent a square wheel that no one asked for.
And after using Apple computers since 1987 no, it would NOT matter if this were Apple's "invention".
So, did you actually have something to contribute to this debate, or were you just going to play patronizing gaslighter for theIt has happened lots of times: space exploration, nuclear power development, global telecommunications and the internet, renewable energy, medical research, military development.
AI is indeed coming to stay in one way or another, but what you have typed underestimates human capabilities and is a bit ignorant.
Had you used AI to maybe do a little research, you'd have realized this of course.
(Can the current LLLMs pretending to be intelligent produce useful results? Sure. Just as a large number of monkeys banging on keyboards randomly might produce something interesting... but you still have to find, train and feed them until they do, and you're now up to your neck in monkey poop as well. What "problem" were you solving... other than trying to find a way to remove pesky morals and ethics from the mix?)
Or, you could buy a top-spec Mac Studio for $10k and run your own local instance of DeepSeek (with the full 671B parameters). It's really a small price to pay for harnessing the power of AI while maintaining complete control over your search data.