Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event Google has hinted it will unveil AI-powered products and features in a live event next week. Online search and advertising are Google's biggest sources of income. The potential that its business could be threatened by Microsoft incorporating OpenAI's GPT-4 into the Bing search engine has raised alarm bells internally. Google …
"Cruise's robotaxis covered a total of 26,838 miles from September to November 2022, whilst Waymo's driverless cars drove 3,057 miles over three months".
OK, double the sum to scale to the second half of 2022 during which 92 accidents occurred in SF. That works out to MRBA (Mean Range Between Accidents) of 650 miles. If they still want to convince me that their robots are better than human drivers they should stick to promising that in the next version.
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I'm not a fan of autonomous taxis, but we shouldn't read "accidents" for "incidents". From the article, it seems the incidents included stopping inappropriately; "nearly run[ning] over water hoses being used by local firefighters" (which is bad, but not an accident as such); and calling emergency services for sleeping passengers, which has a cost but is failing safe and also isn't an accident.
A few hundred miles between incidents is not good, but it's not as bad as a few hundred between accidents.
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Next week: Google loses interest in latest shiny thing and moves on to something else, abandoning project.
Though search-by-chat does elicit more information from the user, which means more surveillance, so they might keep this one around. People become even less cautious when there's a simulacrum of immediate interactivity, as we saw as far back as ELIZA. Chat-search is a con game to harvest more information from users, and manipulate them more effectively. Expect Amazon to get into the game too, since it looks like a good way to get people to buy more stuff.
Ah, I miss the days of AltaVista – which wasn't as good as the original Google, but wasn't a surveillance regime disguised as Your Friendly Web Pal either – and the original Yahoo!, which was a manually-curated index using a well-designed ontology and information model.
Of course, I miss the days of Archie, too.
CEO: This ChatGPT thingy keeps me awake at night. Have you seen our analytics? So many people gone off of our radar and we don't know what they think! How are we supposed to program them through our subliminal Ad targeting? What if they snap out of what we have been feeding them over the years!?
CTO: Don't worry boss, we will make our own ChatGPT pronto!
CEO: Just make sure it sticks to the narrative.zip I sent!
CTO: Don't worry boss, we'll make sure our ChatGPT model does exactly as we want it to. It will stick to the narrative you've provided, and even if users start to question what we feed them, our model will be there to keep them in line. No one will know the difference and we'll have complete control over their thoughts and actions. Our version of ChatGPT will be a tool of unparalleled influence and power.
CEO: Muahahahahahahahhahaa
CTO: Muahahahahahahhhahahah. We will keep them peasants in line!!!
Does anyone think it's suspicious that this whole ChatGPT thing is was hyped right as the entire Tech bubble popped and the layoffs started in the midst of stagnant revenues and lower projected earnings?
It's certainly a nifty new piece of tech that I've used for rephrasing my CV and high level and abstract technical questions. But I suspect it's going to be the next buzzword to ensure investment keeps flowing into these tech monopolies and inflate the share prices now that free cash flow is reducing and can't be spent on buybacks.
Some of these stocks that got hammered are up 30% in 2 months with no upside in earnings expected for a year at least.
Do you really think, pimppetgaeghsr, the whole ChatGPT/LaMDA/ERNIE 3.0 Titan thing is just hype which doesn't introduce and cannot wrest computer and machine power and energy out of the command and control of the narrative of intellectually challenged sub-super humans?
If you wanna go long on that crazy bet, I'll short your position gladly.
Now you will all experience the fear, loathing, and hatred of tech that the rest of us do and realize, you have no say. The machine already owns you. It has since about 2000....Right about the time these ass hats showed up for no reason, saying "do no evil.” ..... Omnipresent
With particular and peculiar reference to .... The machine already owns you .... and specifically .... It has since about 2000....Right about the time these ass hats showed up for no reason, saying "do no evil.” .... one would have to disagree and/or ask WTF is it doing, doing nothing different to humans or for humans and machines up to now, and will tomorrow be any different and better than before, or worse still with more of the same yet to be provided?
Ps .... Omnipresent, your world sucks big time, yeah? Who/What do you think is responsible and accountable for that?
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