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It's not yet. But it clearly shows the direction where search is going, and the ways in which we will likely ask for information. Classical search enhanced wit
by mirzap 4y ago
It's not yet. But it clearly shows the direction where search is going, and the ways in which we will likely ask for information.
Classical search enhanced with AI algorithms is probably not the future. And Google invested a lot in it. It's unlikely that Google will be fast at adapting (changing) their business model.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI think if anything we're at a crossroads. Natural language is great for some types of queries, but has its limits for others. Internet search engines have come to be used for a lot of different tasks, and a large part of Google's sticking power has been that it's at least decent at most of them. But that may also be a bit of a problem. Based on everything I've seen so far, it appears that the more conversational a search engine is, the worse it tends to become at the task search engines originally did (i.e. finding documents about a topic). We've also sort of started to perform all sorts of things through this medium of document-finding, that perhaps could be done differently. I think it does a disservice to both those other tasks and the usefulness of document-finding.