Bing, which is 14 years old, receives 40 million visits per day, while #ChatGPT receives 65 million. In spite of having ChatGPT, Bing's share of desktop searches has grown just 0.25% in the past three months, according to The Information. #AI
It's still too early to tell if #Bing (#Microsoft) can bring down the #monopoly of Google, especially knowing that Google will not go down without an #Ai fight.
Hopefully we're gonna see other #openSource alternatives to the #bigTech search options.
Google announced yesterday that many of its major products will have AI integration, which includes one of the most widely used sites, Google Search. As Big Tech companies battle for AI dominance, Europe is taking the lead with specific guardrails. Vox looks at what Washington is doing to protect Americans from AI's rapid advancement.
“The trick, of course, is that Silicon Valley routinely calls theft “disruption” – and too often gets away with it. We know this move: charge ahead into lawless territory; claim the old rules don’t apply to your new tech; scream that regulation will only help China – all while you get your facts solidly on the ground. By the time we all get over the novelty of these new toys and start taking stock of the social, political and economic wreckage, the tech is already so ubiquitous that the courts and policymakers throw up their hands.
We saw it with Google’s book and art scanning. With Musk’s space colonization. With Uber’s assault on the taxi industry. With Airbnb’s attack on the rental market. With Facebook’s promiscuity with our data. Don’t ask for permission, the disruptors like to say, ask for forgiveness. (And lubricate the asks with generous campaign contributions.)”
“#AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”
Great article by O'Reilly, "You can't regulate what you don't understand",
"Given the radical uncertainty about the progress and impact of AI, we are better served by mandating transparency and building institutions for enforcing accountability than we are in trying to head off every imagined particular harm."
@ErikJonker Maybe we really should not overcomplicate things? We are well aware of certain risks (and impact) due to our experience with ‘conventional’ social media products (misinformation, discrimination, …). These particular risks (and impact) are potentially larger with #AI. So, it should be fairly easy to come up with common-sense regulations? I think that to a large extent it boils down to the following: are we willing and able to curb #bigtech’s market power this time?
@Jigsaw_You
Indeed #Bigtech is a big part of the risks but those are not the only ones, interestingly opensource development seems to be just as strong, deployment of those models also need risk management , regulations etc
I've been given links to several comment chains which have simultaneously been full of far left and right demagoging and conspiracy theory. The beauty of the fediverse is that my view of the world didn't have that. When I went to them I could see them but my world's view didn't have it. This is because of the nature of how the fediverse works. Specifically:
Federation isn't all-on-all
We don't have a click/engagement goosing algorithm shoveling the content in our faces
Users and server admins have powerful moderation tools
Ask me again why I prefer a decentralized, open source, open data, self hostable social network ecosystem over the walled gardens, new and old, that the SV VCs keep trying to lock us into. It isn't perfect but is improving. #fediverse#BigTech#SocialMedia
There's nothing surprising about the intention of #bigTech companies to keep and expand their #monopoly.
Don't be fooled - they're doing everything for their selfish interests. Benefit for society usually comes only as the byproduct, even though their mouths are full of it.
I'm glad #Google failed with their #AMP project, and that we're still free to choose how we want to build our websites.
So now we can all create endless AI generated pictures with Bing chat, an example made with "Create a picture of a modern house on an exposed cliff" , quite nice. #AI#GenerativeAI#Bing
@ErikJonker If many questions need to be addressed first, why would you roll this out now, and take the risk of seriously ‘breaking’ things? #Bigtech companies have started an #ai arms race, without sufficient guidance, regulation, or pushback by policymakers. We are in a ‘Wild West’ scenario: new shiny applications everyday, completely without clarity on how all the applications or potential harms may arise. It’s nuts. 🫣
@ErikJonker#BigTech firms have gathered immense power. These firms are poised to consolidate their power through #AI rather than democratize it. This is the moment to put the brakes on big tech before they run more amok. Regulate, regulate, regulate,…
At a time when artificial intelligence technology is learning to mimic human behavior, there is growing concern around the world that this rapid development could lead to new challenges, including job losses and increased misinformation. Included.
For more Info---> https://mughalnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2023/05/fear-of-artificial-intelligence.html
Worrying:
"#ChatGPT Chief Executive Sam #Altman later told reporters that "all the heads are surprisingly on the same page about what needs to be done."
This probably mean that oversight and legislation will be less than #BigTech had feared.
VP [#Harris...S]He said that the private sector has a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of...