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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 months ago

This reminds me: I need to change my default search engine.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago

I'm kinda surprised he isn't bound by some sort of NDA.

[–] Scary_le_Poo 24 points 4 months ago (10 children)

The difference is that Google+ was actually a wonderful product.

But a couple years down the line Google did what Google does and destroyed it from the inside making it worse and worse until it was just a shell of what it started out being.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Google did what Google does

I remember wrapping my head around "Google Wave" and being like "Hey that sounds nea--oh it's gone already?"

[–] Scary_le_Poo 2 points 4 months ago

Dude for real. Wave was awesome.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 21 points 4 months ago

It told me today that Harvard did research to show 165 degrees killed H1N1 in milk. The reference? Recommended cooking temp for chicken.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am a software developer, this story isn't really about that though. When I was first becoming interested in coding I was reading about vr and ar and how it would be this huge multi billion dollar market in the next few years and I thought that sounded awesome, as it could enhance our lived experiences with info for the curious, or decorate the real world with computer generated architecture, sculpture, even some ads to pay for the whole thing. I said I'm gonna get into computer programming and then transition into vr/ar once I learn a few things.

Of course this didn't pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn't innovate. When they weren't immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down. Just another big tech grift, like cryptocurrency and now AI. Ai is probably the worst example of all because it got pushed out to soak up a bunch of excess cloud computing when crypto crashed, and now its a huge real estate scheme as well since there's a big rush to build data centers to handle the artificial demand. You wanna know the next big bubble to bet against? Its ai and all the related industries.

It requires massive amounts of computing power to accomplish the most mundane tasks, which require electricity created by burning fossil fuels. All so your boss can spend less time writing emails letting you know you've been laid off, and political advisors can mass produce legislation to take away your rights.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down.

The way advanced capitalism can't even grow a product before trying to strangle it for every last penny is all that saves us from special Black Mirror levels of hell.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of a facebook reel in which allegedly a doctor recommends to drink at least 3-5 coffees a day

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

Fucking lmao

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How do you get the AI results on google.com? When I search for anything, it shows a summary and then all the results, sponsors, etc... Nothing is tagged as "AI".

(I never visit google so forgive me if this has an obvious answer)

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can opt into it and other beta technologies at Google Labs.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure then. Maybe Google is just rolling it out in waves, and hasn't gotten to you yet?

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

All good. I'll just continue to mock their progress for now.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 4 months ago

I liked that insider peek from Jenson - well I liked reading all of this, but especially that:-).

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Asking Andisearch to generate AI jokes

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Google AI search is certainly good for memes

vs Andi AI

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Jokes on you, I just shifted to DDG last week.