Tag: ai
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Google Search Summaries: A Step Change For Search Advertising
In a dramatic break with the decades-old traditional search experience, Google announced it will provide AI-based summaries on search results pages at yesterday’s annual Google I/O conference. The new feature, called Search Generative Experience (SGE), is supposed to roll out in the U.S. this week and in other countries later this year. The Search Generative…
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Will Apple Use Google’s Gemini LLM To Power Search And Siri?
I would find it surprising if @Apple decided to use Gemini as an extension to its $20B-a-year deal to license search from Google, or, beyond that, to use Gemini to power #Siri. That is for two reasons: One, it has only been three weeks since Gemini showed us the female pope and female Asian Nazi…
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Google’s Gemini: What Is “True”? And Who Decides?
Critics of Google Gemini suggested that the chatbot should just simply “tell the truth” after it produced biased responses. Just tell the truth – fair enough. But – what is true? And who decides? In Western culture, we establish truth in a collaborative process. Free speech and public debate are designed to eventually arrive at…
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What Will Google Do Next About Gemini – And Will It Be Enough?
Yesterday evening, @Google CEO @SundarPichai addressed the botched launch of the company’s @Gemini #chatbot in an email to employees. This was a message intended to boost internal morale and plot a course forward, but also a message to the public at large. The email mainly consisted of finely polished corporate talk, being rather vague on…
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Apple Abandoning Car Project, Focusing On AI
@Apple is getting two major advantages out of giving up on its #EV car project. 1. It allows Apple to divert billions of dollars into projects that are easier to realize and promise to have greater margins, too. Those are mainly #artificialintelligence products, but also wearables and mixed reality devices. It is unclear how much…
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After The ‘Gemini’ Fiasco – What Can Google Do?
$67 billion lost from @Alphabet’s market capitalization today, with the stock down 3.8% at 3 ET. It took the market a while to figure out just how serious the @Google #Gemini launch fiasco is for the company. #LLMs threaten to erode Google’s bread-and-butter business, search, threatening the existence of the company in its current form.…
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Business Implications of Google’s Botched Gemini Chatbot Release
About a week ago, Google released the version 1.0 Ultra and 1.0 Pro of its AI chatbot Gemini (nee Bard). Tech folks immediately took to taking Gemini through its paces. The results were mixed. On the one hand, testers hailed its advanced capabilities, especially in coding and in text understanding, and its ability to process…
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A Word To the Wise About Nvidia
Today, Nvidia overtook Alphabet in terms of market capitalization, making it the third biggest U.S. company behind Microsoft and Apple. There has been a lot of talk recently about the stratospheric rise of Nvidia’s sales and stock price. Also, how the company has a lot of room to grow given they are the most important…
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