Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI

Post by gumballindie » Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 3:51 PM UTC

cj wrote: post #26

gumballindie wrote: post #16

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They are too busy turning their browser and search experience into crap. For instance what's with search results in gmail and google drive? I literaly search for a file by name, doesn't find it, I search by extension ... it finds it? Then there's chrome - right click on selected text to search on google, instead of opening at tab it opens a crammed side bar? Has google gone insane?

I've noticed gmail search has gotten significantly worse. Maybe my inbox corpus is becoming too large or google may be dedicating less server resources to search, but the frequency of failed inbox searches has significantly increased over the past year. (Failed as in I try to search for an email I know exists, but can't find it) Looks like my inbox is at 250,000 emails. Wonder if search degrades with inbox size. (Sam…

Post by fl0ki » Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 3:56 PM UTC

speak_plainly wrote: post #109

Reading is not a binary process and you can scale your engagement with any written work. If you use a variety of techniques, there is probably no need for a machine summary. For example, start by skimming and scanning an article and you may be able to pull out all the salient points and satisfy your reading goal or choose to go deeper with your analysis depending on time and interest and what you are trying to accomp…

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 3:58 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #90

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #15

Hard pass. I don't want Google, or even a trustworthy neutral party, to decide my view of the world. (Compromised as it may be already.) We're all unique and unpredictable. In a given article, a random sentence or point considered throwaway by most people and algorithms could turn out to be meaningful to me. I've been trained not to even trust the basic facts they pull of out content like movie showtimes or whatever.…

Actually, we’re not unique and often predictable. There usually is someone who says “I’ll never use the product because…” And it’s often a top comment. e.g. Smartphones with GPS, Amazon Alexa,… To me it’s simply a noisy discussion with little value. Don’t use it but let’s not waste time debating it. No one’s mind is going to change. I’d love nothing more than for an algorithm to filter out the noise and extract any i…

Post by gnicholas » Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 4:01 PM UTC

Post by bostonwalker » Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #79

barbariangrunge wrote: post #23

This sort of thing is why Canadian media wanted a cut of big tech profits. Imagine how harmful this is to websites that need to grow audiences, particularly news websites

What is a good example of a Canadian news organization website that is not overwhelmingly populated by headlines and stories that are: - clickbait - hyperbolic - gossip - propaganda - unoriginal - unimportant