For a lay introduction to these ideas, see these two popular press pieces:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/29/1048439/chatbots-replace-search-engine-terrible-idea/
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For a lay introduction to these ideas, see these two popular press pieces: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/29/1048439/chatbots-replace-search-engine-terrible-idea/ 4 comments
@ltmccarty The initial proposals that Shah & I were reacting to in our paper came from ... Google (including Sundar Pichai himself at GoogleIO). @emilymbender Thanks for sharing these! I’m adding as good readings to my #digitalhumanities syllabi for spring. @emilymbender In addition to the TR piece, your interview from May in pnw.ai might also be useful here, particularly for its point about terms and framing (and reference to Stefano Quintarelli's alternative term for AI: “SALAMI” = “systematic approaches to learning algorithms and machine inferences”) https://pnw.ai/article/the-problem-with-overestimating-ai/121722775 |
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This thread from Twitter makes a similar argument with some background information about Google's search strategy:
https://twitter.com/deliprao/status/1599098378172104704?t=QlQFV6P3OServvtYepryHg&s=19