Google makes adjustments to AI Overviews after a rocky rollout
The incorrect answers are the result of “misinterpreting queries, misinterpreting a nuance of language on the web, or not having a lot of great information available.”
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Gemini is the new Google+
“Google and the other companies chasing this AI fantasy are desperate to have us see these systems as a life-changing leap forward, but it’s critically important for us to remain aware of the very real minuses that come with this latest shiny plus.”
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
It’s actually pretty nice, showing only the traditional 10 blue links, giving you a clean (well, other than the ads), uncluttered results page that looks like it’s from 2011.
Google’s “AI Overview” can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers
These jokey posts from random Internet users probably wouldn’t be among the first answers someone saw when clicking through a list of web links. But with AI Overviews, those trolls were integrated into the authoritative-sounding data summary.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
“If there are areas where we feel like we haven’t fully gotten it right, we are careful about rolling it out.”
Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
The scope of Recall, which Microsoft has internally called AI Explorer, is incredibly vast — it includes logging things you do in apps, tracking communications in live meetings, remembering all websites you’ve visited for research, and more.
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down
This is nothing short of a full-stack AI-ification of search. Google is using its Gemini AI to figure out what you’re asking about, whether you’re typing, speaking, taking a picture, or shooting a video.
How Google lost ground in the AI race
Symptomatic of the Silicon Valley giant’s fumbled efforts over the past year to seize the lead in the use of generative AI — a technology that, by general agreement, Google played a central role in creating.
The rise of the job-search bots
The bots — with names like LazyApply and Massive — have turned job hunting into a technological arms race. You pay a fee, feed your résumé into the bot, tell it what you’re looking for, and blam! — it starts sending out hundreds of applications on your behalf, often in real time.
Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried
“Maybe when a retailer has a powerful generative AI engine on their platform, customers don’t feel the need to go on Google at all. Maybe they’re able to get to learn about what they need directly on the retailer’s platform.”
Semafor reporters are going to curate the news with AI
“It’s fundamentally a collection of links to stories from around the web about a topic, curated and summarized by a Semafor reporter. The twist is that Semafor built an AI-powered search tool…”
AI in Google Search
Starting today, when you point your camera (or upload a photo or screenshot) and ask a question using the Google app, the new multisearch experience will show results with AI-powered insights that go beyond just visual matches.
Exclusive: Our first look at Bing Chat’s standalone ChatGPT-like AI mode without search
A new feature turns off Bing search integration, allowing you to use Microsoft’s Bing Chat as a standalone AI, similar to OpenAI models.
Despite its big OpenAI push, Microsoft’s Bing search market share decreases year-over-year
Bing’s market share actually decreased half a percent year-over-year in the United States, from 7.4% to 6.9%, Google’s share increased to 88% up from 86.7% last year, taking a little bit of search volume from virtually every other noticeable player.
Google wants AI chatbot Bard to help it reach billions of users
Google’s experimental chatbot Bard is a path to developing another product with two billion users, a director said on Thursday at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York
5 Ways You’ll Want to Use Windows Copilot in Your Everyday Life
For not-so-tech-savvy people, who frequently finds configuring even basic settings on his system a task, Copilot is the solution. It lets him access Windows features without drilling down through the maze of menus or Settings pages.
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
The age of generative AI threatens to sprinkle epistemological sand into the gears of web search by fooling algorithms designed for a time when the web was mostly written by humans.
Microsoft overhauls OneDrive with a big new design, AI Copilot integration, and more
Copilot will be reading all of your files – so it can help you find what you’re looking for in OneDrive. That’s a fair tradeoff – if you don’t mind having your files read by Microsoft’s AI system.
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI
This means that if a person used Bard to ask it a question then shared the link with a designated third-party, say, their spouse, friend or business partner, the conversation accessible at that link could in turn be scraped by Google’s crawler and show up publicly, to the entire world, in its Search Results.
Bing Chat comes to Chrome!
Further expanding its reach, Microsoft has recently incorporated support for Bing Chat on desktops for all Google Chrome users. Testing for compatibility with Apple’s Safari browser, as well as mobile versions of Chrome and Safari, is currently underway.
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