Justin Long has now done paid promotions for Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm. I fully expect him to endorse AMD and Nvidia and possibly Mediatek before eventually decrying technology’s effect on our lives and going off the grid entirely. And then, by 2044, coming back to do more ads for a company that hasn’t been founded yet.
Glad to see Google give a seemingly up-front explanation of what went wrong with Overviews. It’s consistent with my experience with the feature. And it’s surprising that they hadn’t already figured out what to do with the likes of The Onion. https://blog.google/products/search/ai-overviews-update-may-2024/
@harrymccracken I know it's not your fault, but I had trouble reading through the article with that uncloseable and un pauseable auto-playing video that remains at the bottom of the screen. It can be made smaller but it continues to play which to me is very distracting.
@harrymccracken Never heard of Perplexity, tried it for the first time. The output was completely unusable on all prompts.
I also find the article very intransparent. Why are only the "best" and "worst" answers shown, and why do the "best" answers not seem to be very "best" in most cases?
I’m working on an article for which some notes I took in 1994 are coming in handy. I know why I still have them, but I’m not sure why they’re so tidy. Maybe I was required to submit them along with the article they were for?
Every year at Google I/O, I'm relieved to see that the Shoreline Ampitheater has had the good sense to not remove this signage, which is a source of never-ending delight to me.
Google is showing lots of cool stuff at I/O, though plenty of it doesn't involve any specified launch dates and it's unclear how far along it is. The AI race has prompted more vague pre-announcements of things than I can remember in a long time.
@harrymccracken Google I/O has been like this for years imo. Someone should go through previous I/O events and tally up how many things are announced that never eventuate, I bet there would be plenty!