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Hopefully someone can inform us as to whether they did announce such a pivot (I have no memory of that) but it wouldn't surprise me. ChatGPT feels a lot like se

Hopefully someone can inform us as to whether they did announce such a pivot (I have no memory of that) but it wouldn't surprise me. ChatGPT feels a lot like search-without-citations to me, and the closest existing thing in production to it is the blurb at the top of Google results, which I suppose will soon be replaced by this kind of thing (if they can ever get it to stop lying.)

knorker 4y ago
“Computing is evolving again. We spoke last year about this important shift in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first approach. … In an AI-first world, we are rethinking all our products and applying machine learning and AI to solve user problems.” —Sundar Pichai, 2017 https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/google-goes-ai-first-io-what-dev-ops-need-know https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/google-goes-ai-first-io...
ta988 4y ago
It is not lying, it is not conscious. It is just displaying whatever it says using confidence filled sentences.
- guerrilla 4y ago
  > it is not conscious Obviously. Whatever you want to call it, it needs to stop consistently vomiting up false statements before it's fully useful.
spuz 4y ago
Since 2015, Google have rolled out RankBrain, BERT and MUM which are machine learning enhancements of their search algorithm and allow Google to understand the meaning of the terms you search for and provide matches based on that.
- oriolid 4y ago
  So that explains how Google knows that when I'm searching for X, it can give me results for slightly related Y instead. Sometimes it works, often it feels almost hostile.
  - omgwtfbyobbq 4y ago
    I've noticed the same thing with YouTube notifications. It feels like Google wants to recruit/queue my attention as a resource for their client's ads instead of just notifying me when a new video from someone I follow is available.
    - oriolid 4y ago
      That at least make some sense, but I don't understand whose benefit is showing results for Rider and IDEA when I search for some detail in CLion that is different from the other IDEs from the same company.

knorker 4y ago

“Computing is evolving again. We spoke last year about this important shift in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first approach. … In an AI-first world, we are rethinking all our products and applying machine learning and AI to solve user problems.” —Sundar Pichai, 2017 https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/google-goes-ai-first-io-what-dev-ops-need-know https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/google-goes-ai-first-io...

ta988 4y ago

It is not lying, it is not conscious. It is just displaying whatever it says using confidence filled sentences.

guerrilla 4y ago
> it is not conscious Obviously. Whatever you want to call it, it needs to stop consistently vomiting up false statements before it's fully useful.

spuz 4y ago

Since 2015, Google have rolled out RankBrain, BERT and MUM which are machine learning enhancements of their search algorithm and allow Google to understand the meaning of the terms you search for and provide matches based on that.

oriolid 4y ago
So that explains how Google knows that when I'm searching for X, it can give me results for slightly related Y instead. Sometimes it works, often it feels almost hostile.
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y ago
  I've noticed the same thing with YouTube notifications. It feels like Google wants to recruit/queue my attention as a resource for their client's ads instead of just notifying me when a new video from someone I follow is available.
  - oriolid 4y ago
    That at least make some sense, but I don't understand whose benefit is showing results for Rider and IDEA when I search for some detail in CLion that is different from the other IDEs from the same company.