[eanzenberg]

This is so strange. If you use facebook, google, netflix, apple, microsoft, amazon or a whole host of other services you are interfacing with AI all the time. To think there’s no value there is asinine. Comes up a lot on HN. Seems like people set in their ways who don’t want to progress forward.

[fock]

oh yeah, magnificient AI at Google search. Picked up my ebook-reader again, wanted to know about the state of linux there. so do a search: "<model of ebookreader> linux ssh" (since a good shell is the point, where you can start developing). Turns out, the first 3 pages want to sell me the same thing I already own, with one outlier selling nutritional supplements. Oh well done AI!

[bronco21016]

It’s doing exactly as it’s trained. Nudge the useds to buy more trinkets.

Now just imagine how good it could be if it was being trained to actually give good search results instead of selling.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Unfortunately, Google Search (and Amazon and MS search and all three companies' assistants) doesn't work that well when it comes to selling you what you want to buy either:

https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

But it sure can identify stripes.

[juped]

idk, the thing Google has been doing lately where they suddenly render a block of ads under your mouse as you're clicking on a result seems like the kind of thing an AI would do to increase ad clicks

[perl4ever]

There's a nearly unimaginable amount of money and computing power going to minimize the net value of the service + ads. If you get significant value, it's going to be optimized out in a few minutes. The ads on Youtube recently ramped up to where even something short is unwatchable for me, and it doesn't work at all with an adblocker.

[enchiridion]

Isn't copy and pasting within a thread generally discouraged?