It wasn’t an accident; Google’s corporate culture is badly broken.
3 thoughts on “The Google Gemini Fiasco”
Why exactly would anyone trust sources that would deliberately lie to you? The images being generated were blatant falsehood and obvious to anyone not “Woke”. (Zulu vikings? c’mon…) The worst part is that the creators of these fiascos never admit that their creations aren’t very good, and should’ve been kept in the castle dungeon with all the other failed monsters.
All the talk of “AI” replacing search engines is similarly stupid. At least with a list of search results, I can find the most trustworthy. I’m talking about technical or apolitical, factual subjects (like song lyrics or movie credits), where I might have enough knowledge to judge what comes close to what I want. I don’t want to be funneled into a “curated” source that the AI creators only want to support (because they get a kickback), and won’t let me cross-check. (Notice how modern “sciencing” no longer admits skepticism.)
I’ve been confining my areas of inquiry using AI to STEM topics. Specifically, coding / computer language questions. One can quickly sort out the truth from the BS. BS me too much and I stop using it. So far ChatGPT has been pretty good to me.
Far better I might add than Microsoft Help in ANY form has ever been. Interestingly enough better than search as well. Often times a search would lead me to trying to shoehorn fit an answer from Stack Overflow that wasn’t exactly what I was asking but close enough.
So far ChatGPT has given me cut and paste answers that work the first time tried. Very impressive.
I have been pleased with perplexity.ai Yesterday it gave a plausible answer to a question about a specialized tool that Google could not. It also found good substitute ingredients for baba ghanoush.
Why exactly would anyone trust sources that would deliberately lie to you? The images being generated were blatant falsehood and obvious to anyone not “Woke”. (Zulu vikings? c’mon…) The worst part is that the creators of these fiascos never admit that their creations aren’t very good, and should’ve been kept in the castle dungeon with all the other failed monsters.
All the talk of “AI” replacing search engines is similarly stupid. At least with a list of search results, I can find the most trustworthy. I’m talking about technical or apolitical, factual subjects (like song lyrics or movie credits), where I might have enough knowledge to judge what comes close to what I want. I don’t want to be funneled into a “curated” source that the AI creators only want to support (because they get a kickback), and won’t let me cross-check. (Notice how modern “sciencing” no longer admits skepticism.)
I’ve been confining my areas of inquiry using AI to STEM topics. Specifically, coding / computer language questions. One can quickly sort out the truth from the BS. BS me too much and I stop using it. So far ChatGPT has been pretty good to me.
Far better I might add than Microsoft Help in ANY form has ever been. Interestingly enough better than search as well. Often times a search would lead me to trying to shoehorn fit an answer from Stack Overflow that wasn’t exactly what I was asking but close enough.
So far ChatGPT has given me cut and paste answers that work the first time tried. Very impressive.
I have been pleased with perplexity.ai Yesterday it gave a plausible answer to a question about a specialized tool that Google could not. It also found good substitute ingredients for baba ghanoush.