My understanding is that these projects are a side-effect of how Google judges promotions. If you’ve “created a new product”, that puts you higher on the list to get promoted.
There are no incentives nor resources for maintaining those products. So you see a long list of “ideas” from Google that are abandoned immediately after someone got their promotion.
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Google isn’t bothered by incorrect results because search results are no longer their product. Constantly rising stock values are their product now. Hype is their path to those higher values.
Unfortunately that will likely prove untrue. Look many decades it took to finally eliminate lead in paint and gas after we knew conclusively that it was harmful.
It’s worse than that. “Truth” can no more reliably found by machines than it can be by humans. We’ve spent centuries of philosophy trying to figure out what is “true”. The best we’ve gotten is some concepts we’ve been able to convince a large group of people to agree to.
But even that is shaky. For a simple example, we mostly agree that bleach will kill “germs” in a petri dish. In a single announcement, we saw 40% of the American population accept as “true” that bleach would also cure them if injected straight into their veins.
We’re never going to teach machine to reason for us when we meatbags constantly change truth to be what will be profitable to some at any given moment.
I vividly remember an earlier round of this nonsense (early 00’s, maybe) there was a newspaper headline declaring that inflation was “in-check/“not a problem/whatever the usual deflection denial was at the time. What I found amusing was a bright red sticker on the newspaper machine. The sticker was informing that the papers (which were previously $0.25) were now $0.75.
BrainBridge, a neuroscience and biomedical engineering startup from the US, has claimed that they are developing the world’s first head transplant system. According to their website, it is “a groundbreaking device that will represent a landmark achievement in the fields of neuroscience, human engineering, and artificial...
When I first read the title, I thought it said “librarians”. I thought, “Wow, now that’s an interesting event.” When I figured out it was “libertarians “, my reaction was, “Dog bites man”.
It might be wise to stop hyping how wonderful the economy is for working people who know one thing better than any so-called expert: the economic strain they and their families feel each day.
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On top of all this, they’re trying really damn hard to close the dine-in and force customers to order either online or via their kiosks. I’ve been to multiple locations that have removed their dining rooms, removed their drink fountains or have disabled their cash registers.
All that and their prices are through the roof.
F ‘em. I’m done with McDonalds. Let ‘em go the way of Red Lobster.
Because the investors are always using Other People’s Money. They “invest” OPM and if it succeeds they take a huge cut and proclaim themselves to be geniuses. If it fails, they shrug and make up some BS to console the loser.
I’m not going to lie to you and tell you I know how all of this works, but from experience, the people running these scams are rarely the people who suffer.
Here’s one I’ve seen myself:
There’s a new hot startup. Wall Street rolls up to the C-suite of this company and makes an offer: Go public and we’ll give you thousands of “special” shares. (Some companies might even get multiple of these offers from different Wall St. investors.)
Once the company agrees to go public, Wall St. gives that company’s C-suite Special Shares. Wall St. also gives these shares to friends, family and power people they would like to reward and/or influence.
On the big day, the company goes public. (To the Moon, Baby!) Everyone with Special shares can sell anytime they like. Company employees have a 6-month “blackout window”. The general public is encourages to “invest now before the shares go up so they can sell after they go higher!”
After the stock climbs in value, the Special Stock holders dump their shares and rake in the cash. Everyone else is left holding the bag.
So who in this scenario are the losers? The people who bought the stock and watched it lose value? The people who sold their Special Stock after it went up and before it crashed? Who gets punished? Who goes to jail? Where does the money go?
You saw this whole scam condensed to it’s essentials during the Crypto Currency scams a few years back.
So many different variations on this scam. Keeps working too, so long as you don’t get sloppy and steal from rich people like Bernie Madoff did.
Yeah, it’s hard to feel bad for people who are “too rich” when it’s literally the easiest problem in the world to solve. Pick up a phone, dial any random number and say, “Hey, come over and pick up all my money.”
Heck, they’re usually fighting off swarms of people every day that are trying to just that. Let them take it.
I’d rephrase it to be, “People who’ve worked their way up the ranks within the company have the most experience at all levels and understand what it takes to provide a good product. Those people can make good managers.”
Jag-offs that graduate Stanford and just want to extract money are leaches and should be salted immediately.
Why grocery bills feel so high, even though food inflation is technically low (www.axios.com)
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Every time I hear news from the tech industry lately (lemmy.world)
The Uvalde Police Department stands with you, ready to offer support and assistance on this solemn day. (lemmy.world)
Direct link m.facebook.com/uvaldepd
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
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"Inflation" doesn't mean what it used to (www.axios.com)
Change in Consumer Price Index, as measured by normal people and economists
World's first head transplant with robotic surgeons? Startup claims 'revolutionary' procedure (www.hindustantimes.com)
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Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
Libertarian convention devolves into fighting, obscenities on eve of Trump’s visit (www.politico.com)
Are Workers Just Too Stupid to Understand Inflation? (www.commondreams.org)
It might be wise to stop hyping how wonderful the economy is for working people who know one thing better than any so-called expert: the economic strain they and their families feel each day.
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper (youtu.be)
Coffeezilla asks: “Is the LAM a Scam? Down the rabbit hole we go.”
“Everyone is absolutely terrified”: Inside a US ally’s secret war on its American critics (www.vox.com)
Cityshuttle's 6-Wheeled E-Cargo Bike System Is Like A Pedal-Powered Semi Truck - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
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Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)
McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills (www.cbsnews.com)
Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut (www.theverge.com)
What is the point of cruel and deadly border policies if employers could just be penalized for hiring unauthorized labor all along?
'Wealth can be pretty isolating': Problems that rich people face, according to therapists (www.cnbc.com)
Won’t somebody think of the rich?!
Red Lobster files for bankruptcy, restaurants will stay open (www.nbcnews.com)