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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The model uses “advanced reasoning, thinking, and multimodal capabilities”…
Well, LLM’s are incapable of actually doing the first two, so we’re already off to a great start.
I don’t think it’s much in the way of hyperbole to say that if they make this the default or worse, only search output option that this will be the thing that literally destroys the company.
No one except idiotic boardroom denizens actually wants this. Google failing to provide actual search results is the singular one and only thing that could actually get users to switch away from using it and not just talk. And if no one is searching on Google then nobody is seeing ads on Google, which means Google will not be selling adds.
I will laugh so hard if this happens.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Sadly, I’ve seen how much the average non-tech enthusiast LOVES all this AI stuff. Like, people’s parents/grandparents who only occasionally use a computer when they have to. The types of folks who will call tech support and actually need the answer, “Is your computer powered on?” And there are far more people out there like that than many tech folks think. That’s the market that keeps powering this stuff.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 months ago
Somehow, a huge amount of people hate thinking. Like it’s painful or like exertion or something. Anything that can just give them what they want is better.
It doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong. They just want an answer. They don’t want to know why, or how, they want to know now.
It’s the shortcut to knowledge all the ancient parables warned us about. Instead of physically destroying your mind, it stops it from working at all.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That being said, we are still in the early phase of the “information age”.
IMO industrialization and rise of “modernity” (in the sense of a historical, sociology-political time period) were far more disruptive than what we have seen in the information age so far.
It is likely we still have to go through some sort of highlight disruptive events (the 21st century equivalent of WW1/WW2) before we come to terms with the pros/cons inherent to the information age.