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Google has hell of a moat because they are continuously crawling and indexing the Web for the last 27 years. They have tons of data and information that can be used for training of their AI.

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The result of that is suggesting to put delicious glue on a pizza. Yummy https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176490/mm-delicious-glu...

At this point Google has zettabytes of data and there is no efficient way for them and their algorithms to realize what is going on exactly....but I sometimes still wonder how things like this happen.

When speaking about ranking I think they should enforce PageRank more because I don't see any other algorithm that is more simpler and more powerful than this one.

That one happened because Gemini read it on Reddit and hadn't figured it was a joke. It was only up there from its launch through till about four days later when someone removed it.

Yea, AI still can't figure out jokes, irony, metaphor etc. Perplexity also quotes Reddit very often, idk how smart is that.

They are getting better at fact checking, Google apprently working on Googling the answer - Hassabis at Davos the other day: https://youtu.be/ICv03VysLaE?t=826

It already exists in Gemini and it existed in Bard....now it's called "Double-check response". Here is pic of it in action: https://i.imgur.com/aIISzt5.png

It does not allow us to see the links behind the facts. Thats dismaying.

Increasing amounts of data is also becoming hidden behind walled gardens like LinkedIn, Instagram and Slack/group chats.

LinkedIn at least shows up prominently in Google search results, not sure about IG. And Google still has some majored walled gardens of its own like Docs, Gmail, and YouTube.

Google picks up some LinkedIn content, but I would venture it’s a very small slice of what is out there. Just doing a google search for several posts I see on my feed, and very few if any shows up. Same for IG (which makes sense as a lot of profiles are private)

I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn is eventually excluded from training datasets. It's inclusion trains the LLMs to generate slop, which the providers will eventually be looking to reduce.

I tested 1000 AI tools in one day…

And here are 3 things I learned.

The other thing Google has, and maybe Meta, is good monetization technology. I'm not sure how monetization of AI will work but I can see if you ask about flights say it'll link to Google's holiday booking stuff etc.

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