"These AI search bots will soon be available for anyone to use, but we shouldn’t be so quick to trust glorified autocorrects to run our lives. Less than a decade ago, the world realized that Facebook was less a fun social network and more a democracy-eroding machine. If we’re still rushing to trust the tech giants’ Next Big Thing, then perhaps hallucination, with or without chatbots, has already supplanted searching for information and thinking about it."

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/google-microsoft-search-engine-chatbots-unreliability/673081/

"Microsoft and Google have proposed a future where search engines use AI to synthesize information and package it into basic prose, like silicon oracles. But fully realizing that vision might be a distant goal, and the road to it is winding and clouded: The programs currently driving this change, known as 'large language models,' are decent at generating simple sentences but pretty awful at everything else."

#MatteoWong

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/google-microsoft-search-engine-chatbots-unreliability/673081/

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