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Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.

Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”

He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.

Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 212 points 1 year ago (62 children)

The part about Google isn't wrong.

But the second half of the article, where he says that AI chatbots will replace Google search because they give more accurate information, that simply is not true.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If you aren't paying for chatgpt, give a look to perplexity.ai, it is free.

You'll see that sources are references and linked

Don't judge on the free version of chatgpt

Edit. Why the hell are you guys downvoting a legit suggestion of a new technology in the technology community? What do you expect to find here? Comments on steam engines?

[–] tetris11@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, it's really good. Who knew that asking a bot to provide references would immediately improve the quality of the answers?

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you try "copilot" option, you get the full experience. It's pretty neat because it allows for brainstorming.

It is still a very "preliminary version" experience (it often gets stuck in a small bunch of websites), because the whole thing is just few months old. But it has a lot of potential

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