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   by semking 2y ago

   I hate the cookie consent but blogs get indexed. No pun.
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   by semking 2y ago

   Perfect summary: stealing screen real estate and adding a cognitive load damages the user experience. Plain and simple!
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   by semking 2y ago

   I think I see what you mean and I should have been more precise. I'll rephrase: most LLMs based on transformer architectures do not rely on the simplistic state transition logic of Markov chains... BUT, while they can use alternative m
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   by semking 2y ago

   Your example of Memory vs Understanding is crazy... it gave me a counterintuitive and insightful idea that's amazing —and I'm not making fun of you! :D But in the real world, what is the added value of back propagation beyond the
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   by semking 2y ago

   Part of the argument of the users I screenshotted or part of my argument? My argument is simple: who in their right mind would spend their time, energy, and money creating content that various LLMs will quickly steal and repurpose? I'm
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   by semking 2y ago

   I thought I covered this in the article. You are right: their search empire is based on ads. To be precise, of 237.9 billion Alphabet generated in ad revenue in 2023, $175.0 billion, or 73.6%, came from Google Search (!). It may appear coun
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   by semking 2y ago

   Thank you for making the internet a better place :D Jokes aside, are the AI summaries always bad in your experience?
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   by semking 2y ago

   I'm pretty sure the pyramids were powered by nuclear fusion, something we should master in the coming 100 years! :D /S
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   by semking 2y ago

   I used the expression "toxic positivity" in my article because LI is, by default, a wasteland of FAKE content. But, and that's a BIG BUT, your feed completely changes if you train the algorithms for a while! I tested with mul
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    by semking 2y ago

    Your feeling is confirmed by real-world results. Google has consistently improved the quality of its models, and we've seen BIG jumps in the output of AI results. That's positive, but the tradeoff is that Google is now focusing ma
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    by semking 2y ago

    Interesting example, did this happen directly within Google Search or were you using the gemini[.]google[.]com subdomain? My understanding is that Gemini, like most LLMs, uses probabilistic models to predict/guess the most likely words
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    by semking 2y ago

    Thank you for your comment, but I can't entirely agree. Of course, the flood of AI-generated content pushed search engines to reconsider their crawling/indexing approach, but that mostly means treating low-value programmatic SEO s
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    by semking 2y ago

    Thank you for sharing your feedback with me, NoPicklez! There are many problems at multiple levels. There's the layout of course because we all have limited real-estate space and AI answers/responses push down everything else in m
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    by semking 2y ago

    I've edited and purged all cache. The title should be: "Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search" Thank you for taking the time to notify me! :)
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    Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search(semking.com)

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