Last one, i've been farming Ai for memes but last one with lore

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.

Trailer Trash be all like: “SEE AH TOLD Y’ALL IT WAS GOOD FOR THE BABY! GOOGLE DONE SAYS SO!!!!”
- Why do you hate the poor.
  
  Why do you hate comedy?

This reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.
- 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.
  
  I've been really liking Kagi. It's been my default for about 5 months now.
  
  ddg image search is superior to Google's though.
  
  One thing that keeps me coming back to Google is shopping, or searching for online stores, or searching for prices. The shopping tab is somewhat useful and I don't know any other search engine that does it (because it's barely a search engine thing tho)

I'm kinda surprised he isn't bound by some sort of NDA.
- AI told him he could ignore it.
  
  So excited for AI written TOS that are just around the corner.
- 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."
- 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.
  
  NDAs are usually signed when you're hired, not when you leave.
  
  What are they gonna do if you refuse to sign? Fire you?
  If this guy voluntarily left, then he wasn't getting a severance package that they could withhold (and on that note, this is a good reason to include involuntary severence in your employment contract, if you can negotiate it).
- Every tech company I worked at, NDAs were a doc to not share code or research discoveries.

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

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

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  I legitimately can't stop laughing at this omg

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.

Reminds me of a facebook reel in which allegedly a doctor recommends to drink at least 3-5 coffees a day
- Me when self medicating adhd
  
  Self-medicating ADHD sufferers recommend consuming 3-5 entire pots of coffee a day, and a treat of another 150-300mg before bed
  
  Mine was a monster every two hours on my break. So much sugar and caffeine.

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.
- 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 ♥️
- Google did what Google does
  I remember wrapping my head around "Google Wave" and being like "Hey that sounds nea--oh it's gone already?"
  
  Dude for real. Wave was awesome.

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

Fucking lmao

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)
- 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.
- You can opt into it and other beta technologies at Google Labs.
  
  Thank you!
- I can reproduce most results with Google app on Android. I'm in Europe, not in USA. It just appears as some text below the search box, not marked as anything. Except this one about smoking. Now it says smoking as bad. I guess Google already told the AI to behave.
- Are you in the US?
  
  Yeah

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...
- The logical Destiny for a search engine which give more importance to SEO crap and surveillance advertising, than on relevant and reliable results. It's a filter bubble platform like others which logs your searches. It's like someone which always agree with you, even if you are wrong.

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

Google Plus was a good platform that was horribly managed.
- Also, they made a huge mistake right at the beginning. It was invite-only...
  
  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.

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.

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.
- He posted about it on mastodon 7 days ago, so I don’t think it’s an old tweet. Maybe his personal website is just out of date? https://social.coop/@scottjenson/112468182058087636

Google AI search is certainly good for memes
vs Andi AI

Running with scissors is good exercise if you don't fall, and good for your pores if you do.

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Asking Andisearch to generate AI jokes
- OK I like the 3rd one actually
  
  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..

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.
But I do think they are panicking a bit too much.

I'm glad I use Qwant...

Jokes on you, I just shifted to DDG last week.

I'm going to start calling all these bullshit posts as they are.
They aren't entertaining. Karma is not even a thing anymore on Lemmy. So why are you lying?
- 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.
  
  I tried it on the Gemini web app and couldn't replicate the results. Is that different from the AI overview?
- This is about the new ai thing on Google, which you clearly don't have, so they probably arnt lying. Look at the post before you reply.
  
  I literally only replied because I looked at it. Just because there's a small tagline present in theirs doesn't mean anything
- 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.
  This is what it typically looks like:
  
  There is a lab icon which I clicked and I shows me this.
  Then if I click the try example button I see this
  I'm pretty sure they are just testing different UI presentations of that same feature.
- This is a normal engine search lol. All the memes are from the AI response feature, similar to Bing's GPT tab.
- My understanding is that Google is doing a partial roll out of AI summary so most people don't have it yet.
  
  So that pulled out text essentially saying the exact opposite of what the OP screenshot says is not the same thing?
- That's a featured snippet, so not AI at all.