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Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by _heimdall »

chrismcb wrote: post #89
_heimdall wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question - why is space exploration worth devoting the massive amount of man hours and natural resources to? What's the real gain that is worth using those resources for space exploration, or not using the resources at all?

What is the real gain? Resources. There are a ton of resources up there. Knowledge. A lot of things we have today we have because of our previous space race. But the real reason... It is virtually free. The budget is almost 0 compared to everything else the government does.

For the near zero budget part, do you just mean sending up a few more probes? Surely finding, collecting, and using natural resources in space would be an extremely expensive affair.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by tim333 »

jsheard wrote: post #6

If you ask it how many Muslim presidents the US has had, it will confidently tell you that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. I'm beginning to think that treating statistically common sequences of words on the whole internet as a source of truth may not actually be a very good idea. edit: screenshots for posterity https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502

>Poll: 54% of Republicans say that, "deep down," Obama is a Muslim https://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8108005/obama-muslim-poll

After fixing the AI, if they could fix people that would be good.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by tim333 »

benterix wrote: post #115
tasuki wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is because the two are much closer to each other than the proponents of either would think.

Which is so sad given that practically everybody I know wants nothing to do with either, but with two party system everybody needs to classify themselves or let others choose for them.

It seems to be a bug in neural networks in general.

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Post by yourmom234 »

jsheard wrote: post #6

If you ask it how many Muslim presidents the US has had, it will confidently tell you that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. I'm beginning to think that treating statistically common sequences of words on the whole internet as a source of truth may not actually be a very good idea. edit: screenshots for posterity https://x.com/TVietor08/status/1793768913245020502

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Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by [deleted] »

al_borland wrote: post #86
_air wrote: post #19

Is Google losing significant web traffic to ChatGPT and others? I don't understand why else they'd test a product like this so widely.

I think they are terrified of GenAI eliminating people's desire to do traditional web searches. It's basically the quick answers Google has been offering for years, but much more in depth and complete (if correct). My dad has been talking a lot about how he wants to start using ChatGPT more instead of Google, and he thinks is going to make his life much better.

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Post by yterdy »

shooker435 wrote: post #71
mike_d wrote: post #40

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Google was always better than Yahoo/Bing at dealing with webspam (whether Google can continue to beat current webspam is a different debate). Bing is happily traning on the things they don't know are bad results. Garbage in garbage out. The only competition Google needs to worry about is Google's leadership. Once Cloud brought in TK and they started actively recruiting from Microsoft and Oracle it was like an infecti…

Not sure if it's strictly the recruiting pool that made things break down, but I see it more as a result of COVID/WFH + the recruiting pool. Google's strong in-office culture once helped new joiners learn the culture and challenge others in a respectful way - now it's a political minefield. Remote work is great, but it probably accelerated Google's culture decline. If you've been there a while, you'll notice the wild…

Depending on who you ask, Google's search issues started as early as 2010 (Instant) or 2016 ("brands"). Many of the things people complain about regarding Google's culture - shuttering projects arbitrarily, hiring issues (the interview gauntlet, anti-competitive practices, etc.), the slow erosion of Don't Be Evil - are 2010s products, also. I don't think this is WFH, at its root.

Re: Google's AI-generated search results keep citing The Onion

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Post by danaris »

benterix wrote: post #115
tasuki wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is because the two are much closer to each other than the proponents of either would think.

Which is so sad given that practically everybody I know wants nothing to do with either, but with two party system everybody needs to classify themselves or let others choose for them.

Our two-party system is nothing like "far right vs far left".

A "far left" position would be something along the lines of "we should murder all billionaires, confiscate all money from anyone making more than 1 standard deviation above mean income, nationalize all businesses, and redistribute the profits evenly among all."

A "far right" position would be something along the lines of "we should institute a white-supremacist theocratic government with an autocratic leader unaccountable to anyone else."

One of these is almost precisely the party platform of one of the two major parties in the US. The other is laughed at by nearly anyone with any political acumen, and certainly looks nothing like the party platform of the other major party.

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