If you’re in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google’s generative AI technology, used to appear only if you’ve opted into the Search Generative Experience(SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a “subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the US.” And that is why you could be getting Google’s experimental AI-generated section even if you haven’t switched it on.
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Isn’t it the training of the models which is the most energy intensive? whereas generating some text in answer to a question is probably not super intensive. Caveat: I know nothing
Yes training is the most expensive but it’s still an additional trillion or so floating point operations per generated token of output. That’s not nothing computationally.
Almost every time I ask a direct question, the two AI answers almost always directly contradict each other. Yesterday I asked if vinegar cuts grease. I received explanations for both why its an excellent grease cutter, and why it doesn’t because it’s an acid.
I think this will be a major issue with AI. Just because it was trained on a huge wealth of knowledge doesn’t mean that it was trained on correct knowledge.
Just because it was trained on a huge wealth of knowledge doesn’t mean that it was trained on correct knowledge.
Which makes its correct answers and it’s confidently wrong answers look as plausible as each other. One needs to apply real intelligence to determine which to trust, makikg the AI tool mostly useless.
Exactly!
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This may actually be a net improvement to the Google Search experience, since the engine is borderline unusable without uBlock Origin. But also it feels weird that Google would make an AI generated prompt the focal point and not the entire rows of sponsored ads that litter all search results.
How did the big tech industry get this terminally stupid?
…the engine is borderline unusable without uBlock Origin.
Chris, would you elaborate more on this experience?Update: Who’s Chris? Curse you, speech to text.
I’m not Chris, but it’s all the dang “sponsored” search results that populate when googling without using uBlock Origin.
Ive used UBO so long I forget regulwr people see a diffeent internet. Google results are still suffering.
This is exactly my case. Ads on apps as well. I completely forget that people have to see all that constantly.
I wonder how much real estate that sponsored content takes. Then again, not enough to visit google and turn off UBO.
Update: Who’s Chris? Curse you, speech to text.
Speech to text has gotten me into trouble so many times, it’s actually comical at this point.
😁 Me too. This was rare for me. FUTO with offline STT has been such a boon. I’m glad to be away from google’s gboard.
Yes, you can cure cancer according to the results…
- Dr Williams Oz. Cancer pill center 3)I ate a corn dog and it cured my can…
- research into cancer cures has come u…
- at McDonald’s we too have canc…
- the best cancer cures by Motley Fo…
- top 20 best ways to iPhone your canc…
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Unfortunately for us, we’re not the customer
Duck duck gone.
I’ll be looking for a uBlockOrigin filter when it hits for me
I try to avoid google search when I can, but this should solve the problem for the rest of the time
Plenty of other search engine that need your attention 🫠
I wish that was the case but sadly most of them are basically Bing or Google frontends or belong to entities that I trust even less. As far as I can tell there are very few independent crawls out there.
SearXNG is fairly decent if you can set that up.
SearXNG is great at what it does but it falls into the Bing/Google/etc-frontend category since it just forwards your query to one of the search engines it has modules for. It doesn’t have its own crawl and index.
Lol. The generated result that is incomplete and slower than the rest of the search. I usually scroll past it because it’s not done generating. If it does generate fast enough, it’s usually too vague or broad
I got a Google Gemini “text message” in Google messages today. I couldn’t find a way to turn it off, so I just blocked and reported it as spam lol
I’ll add it to my list of reasons not to use google
