Could everyone stop quoting the “hilarious” wrong answers given by google ai? It wasted a bottle of water to tell you that terrible joke, water is life, ai bullshit is death, what part of this is hard to understand
I'm as upset as you at the waste but I'd argue that making everyone understand exactly how shit it is is really the only way we'll build enough of a PR problem for them to do stop. Google+ and Reader make it clear that whether people use a service has nothing to do with them continuing to run it!
(I mean: I'm not going to go out of my way to do wasteful AI queries just to find things to make fun of, but if they're floating around I think it's more productive to use them as a vector to criticise the waste than pretend they don't exist and leave more people not-upset with the service.)
I would also guess that at Google’s scale, it‘s not actually submitting prompts to an LLM for each individual search query. More likely it’s generating and caching AI summaries for search topics with the highest anticipated demand.
But I also agree with you: the more normal, mainstream people see the top-tier tech companies exposing AI as an absolute joke, the sooner this bubble bursts.
Same, people need to understand what the hell is going on here. The AI that is being touted as the next revolution by the tech-bros is a scam and only makes people like Sam Altman richer.
And I really recommend listening to Better Offline by @zitron.bsky.social He points out the flaws in what´s going on in the techworld right now concerning AI.
Hopefully! My concern is just that if we were to assume Google were rational about it they wouldn't be doing it at all!
We've seen several people claim the implementation was rushed and panicked, and the easiest implementation is also the most wasteful. :/
Oh--yeah, I see that they are. :( Well, at least it is not yet built into the default search like it is with google? I know Ecosia has AI as well, but you have to deliberately go click over to it to use it, so that's what I've got on my phone now
