AI is coming to Google search through Search Generative Experience(theverge.com)

40 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 22 comments

All the Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next?(thewalrus.ca)

30 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 29 comments

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking(theverge.com)

715 points by mikece 3 years ago | 509 comments

The Verge reports that CNET has been deleting thousands of old articles, a practice it calls 'pruning', to try to improve its Google Search rankings.

Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine(theverge.com)

142 points by gorbachev 3 years ago | 122 comments

Neeva, would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine(theverge.com)

42 points by samspenc 3 years ago | 25 comments

The End of the Googleverse(theverge.com)

173 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 212 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

Computers Cannot Make Decisions(wiki.cateat.fish)

175 points by heavensteeth 16 days ago | 148 comments

A personal wiki essay arguing that blaming LLMs for harmful outcomes is decision laundering and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic bear responsibility.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.