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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

To be fair, this could be very make or break for Google. If someone else solves AI search properly, and they can't catch up, it would be really bad for them. G+/Facebook were another market completely so it wasn't really taking any of their current market share.

But I do think they are panicking a bit too much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Google AI search is certainly good for memes

vs Andi AI

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google Plus was a good platform that was horribly managed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, they made a huge mistake right at the beginning. It was invite-only...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Invite only, then when they didn't have enough users, they tried to force it on everyone in conjunction with trying to force them to use their real names on YouTube. The whole thing was just an absolute master class in fucking up a launch from start to finish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The difference between G+ and now is that Google search is actually bad now and they need to do something to fix it, but they just did the completely wrong thing...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The logical Destiny for a search engine which give more importance to SEO crap and surveillance advertising, than on relevant and reliable results. It's a filter bubble platform like others which logs your searches. It's like someone which always agree with you, even if you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Running with scissors is good exercise if you don't fall, and good for your pores if you do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm glad I use Qwant...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Asking Andisearch to generate AI jokes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

OK I like the 3rd one actually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, the sense of humor is still somewhat limited in AIs. Anyway, Andi is not designed to tell jokes, but rather to give reliable answers to questions and this it does quite well..

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