Google’s vision for the future of search shows how generative AI is all about increasing corporate power.
Instead of sending you to different websites, Google has scraped the open web to generate plagiarized answers to keep you looking at ads on Google. We need to stop being distracted by AI hype and fantasies about intelligent machines, so we can push back on the real threats before it’s too late.
Watching #GoogleIO and there are some cool demonstrations of data center cloud computing, but there's also this fog of dystopia surrounding these demos.
The announcements for search are horrifying. Google is full mask off.
Phrases like "search for something, and we'll collect all this data for you" basically equates to:
"We sucked up ALL the data from people who really did the work, and we're going to give you the results of their hard work, but we wont take you to the site that generated the data. You can stay on the search page, and the site's traffic will plummet."
I wish the other browser vendors didn't rely so heavily on Google to get the word out. They all do so much work to make these features possible, as do the standards committees, the #OpenUI group, and @igalia, and they all deserve to get more credit.
For real this part from #GoogleIO where these two people revealed how AI helped them build the least-fun, derivative, creativity-bereft, soulless video game ever devised was something straight out of Mythic Quest.
Did you miss Google's big developer event? This Magazine from The Verge has all you need to know, from new additions to the Pixel lineup to all the AI advancements.
For a company that just fired all their leading AI Ethics researchers, Google sure talked a lot about "responsible" AI in their Keynote #Google#googleio#ai#aiethics
Google announced yesterday that many of its major products will have AI integration, which includes one of the most widely used sites, Google Search. As Big Tech companies battle for AI dominance, Europe is taking the lead with specific guardrails. Vox looks at what Washington is doing to protect Americans from AI's rapid advancement.
This Google I/O wast the most boring tech keynote I ever seen. Google is shoving IA into everything, everything was cringe and I swear you could hear the boredom of the audience, the claps were mostly polite and barely no one laughed at the jokes. You can tell people are tired of Google. #googleio
Google I/O wrapped up, and I have a LOT of thoughts. Shot a quick reaction video on the keynote here https://somegadgetguy.com/b/455
Some really interesting AI tools are coming, but will Gemini search continue hurting website traffic?