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We’re currently in the golden age of LLMs as search engines. Eventually they’ll subtly push products and recommendations in their output to steer you toward spe
by deadbabe 2y ago
We’re currently in the golden age of LLMs as search engines. Eventually they’ll subtly push products and recommendations in their output to steer you toward specific things.
- HellDunkel 2y agoYou mean like the golden age of speech recognition a couple of years ago when they claimed 80% of computer interfacing will be voice only?
- spudlyo 2y agoMore like as in the Golden Age of Google search, where the product optimized for returning the best, most relevant, most reputable results. As in, pre enshitification.
- HellDunkel 2y agoIts already stained. And it was never golden so why care?
- stavros 2y agoI assume you didn't try Google in the late 90s?
- HellDunkel 2y agoI did and calling it a golden age is not wrong compared to what we have now. I was referrimg to the golden age of „voice only“ here
- II2II 2y agoOr it could be more like the golden age of search engines. It's hard to tell which way it will go because LLMs are a new technology. Some people see only its strengths. Some focus upon its weaknesses. What matters though is the long run, when we get over our initial reactions.
- NBJack 2y agoGolden age as in, "this is as good as it gets", rather than "it will be better in the future".
- red-iron-pine 2y agoby "eventually" they mean "at this rate, mid-next year, if not already"
- oofbey 2y agoNo - they are all competing for eyeballs right now. They need to solidify their positions in terms of user habits and behaviors before they start pissing people off.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoVoice interfaces have become ingrained in some people's lives thanks to either their on-device thing (siri) or there being a permanent listener in their house (alexa); I suspect the same thing will happen with LLMs when they get integrated like that, which is already happening with Copilot in every editor, Gemini in every Google product, and soon enough (if not already) Apple Intelligence and co in phones.