Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
I regularly use the quick results feature of Kagi which seems to be similar in scope to this, but this is so hilariously bad :D
How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
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Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
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OpenAI has been in the news lately because one of the new 4o voices sounds like Scarlett Johansson in the movie Her. Allegedly Scarlett Johansson was approached multiple times about being the voice, but turned it down, so they just made a voice that sounds like her. There were some tweets that had very conspicuous timings that accelerated the drama. It seems that google is mixing in the largest related search terms.
I am well aware of the situation, hence me searching her name. But that doesn’t explain the nonsense word salad. I would actually be very skeptical to assume that these were taken verbatim from searchers. You would have needed A LOT of people to have searched that exact phrase for it to be added to PAA. Google does a good job with People Also Ask, and I have never seen this before. It might be nothing, but I am leani…
Yeah that sentence would literally be caught by a rudimentary grammar checker. This is what happen when you apply YOLO-driven design decisions on the basics of your core product.
Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#123Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years: - Killing google reader - Pointless UI changes - Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other. - Stadia fiasco - Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lac…
The Google stock is at record value. Google revenue is at record value. Google profit is at record value. You seem to be operating on a concept of "good ideas" that are disconnected from what the owners of Google (= stockholders) want. Google is still performing exceedingly well for what their owners want. Always follow the money.
a monopoly in the ad and search markets will make an apparent genius out of any fool
Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#124Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years: - Killing google reader - Pointless UI changes - Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other. - Stadia fiasco - Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lac…
The Google stock is at record value. Google revenue is at record value. Google profit is at record value. You seem to be operating on a concept of "good ideas" that are disconnected from what the owners of Google (= stockholders) want. Google is still performing exceedingly well for what their owners want. Always follow the money.
Google's Gemini is not mind-blowing nor probably top model but without a doubt is in the same ballpark as all their competitors. Which I think is a pretty Good sign. Just like Meta, Google did not drop the ball on AI and looks like they had their ears to the ground better than say MSFT, APPLE or AMZN.
In that sense I can see why investors are happy. What matters is if Google can continue to innovate and at a rate faster than competition.
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> how does anyone find this acceptable? Many in the tech community have high expectations for Google engineering quality and product development. The expectations are now too high, much like the executives who pushed this feature.
> Many in the tech community have high expectations for Google engineering quality and product development Wait? Whom has these expectations? I presumed most in the tech industry scoff at anything Google launches, point at Google Graveyard or at all the failures they've been through. Seriously: aside from search, ads and android, what product has Google developed ever that is of high quality and meeting the high qual…
Chrome, Chromebooks and Android.
Non-Products: Kubernetes and MGLRU.
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Google may return different results at different times
Let me know if you ever get a result that's as wildly incorrect as those
I recently received a result that gave me the wrong date for a college class registration, which was pretty fucked up. It was off by three days. Luckily, I double checked my schools official website.
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literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor's new clothes: y'all can see this too right?
> how does anyone find this acceptable? Many in the tech community have high expectations for Google engineering quality and product development. The expectations are now too high, much like the executives who pushed this feature.
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Re: How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
#130Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years: - Killing google reader - Pointless UI changes - Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other. - Stadia fiasco - Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lac…
The Google stock is at record value. Google revenue is at record value. Google profit is at record value. You seem to be operating on a concept of "good ideas" that are disconnected from what the owners of Google (= stockholders) want. Google is still performing exceedingly well for what their owners want. Always follow the money.
I know that view is popular, but it seems so short-sighted. Most companies can increase profit whenever they want, but driving out innovators and abusing goodwill never works out long-term. Look at IBM, Oracle, Intel, Boeing, US Steel, GE, Commodore, Quiznos, etc. I feel like the Google's stock holders are just getting the wool pulled over their eyes. An increase in profit often means a cannibalization of value.