Discussion

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  Google has unveiled its vision for how it will incorporate AI into search. The quick answer: it's going to gobble up the open web and then summarize/rewrite/regurgitate it (pick the adjective that reflects your level of disquiet) in a shiny google UI https://www.theverge.com/... …

• @nicnguyen Nic Nguyen on x

  citations showing up in new google search generative AI module which features ... three links is every media org's SEO team panicking rn? https://twitter.com/...

• @sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x

  1/Today at #GoogleIO we shared the bold and responsible approach we're taking to use AI to reimagine our products, including Search with a new generative search experience coming first to Labs. You can sign up starting today. https://labs.withgoogle.com/ https://blog.google/... h…

• @ow @ow on x

  oh snap, google's putting AI generated responses RIGHT AT THE TOP of search results. the AI war is heating up! https://twitter.com/...

• @cyrusshepard @cyrusshepard on x

  Early takeaways from Google's new AI search updates, aka Project Magi 1. Most answers appear to NOT cite sources 2. LINKS to dig deeper appear below/offside 3. Emphasis on SHOPPING features 4. SEARCH ADS continue to appear 5. Like ChatGPT, you can “continue” conversations 🧵1/5 ht…

• @lmatsakis Louise Matsakis on x

  As Google and Microsoft restructure search around AI chatbots, I've been thinking a lot about the incentives to keep creating content for websites. Google has already observed that fewer websites are regularly updated. What's the point if this how your work will be presented? htt…

• @dipanjand Dipanjan Das on x

  What excites me most is the capability of “corroborating” the information in the LLM-generated response. To evaluate the response quality, users can expand the view to see how the response is corroborated, and then click to the linked resources to go deeper. 4/

• @moorehn Heidi N. Moore on x

  One thing this definitely kills is the easy-click stories like “what time is the Super Bowl” — which you may hate, but because they do viral traffic every time, pay the bills in many newsrooms. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexarrelia Alex Arrelia on x

  It's wild how this only doesn't constitute plagiarism or copyright violation by mere technicality. Like they can copyright strike you like the day is long on YouTube, but if you write on the internet for a living, your shit is just theirs now https://twitter.com/...

• @parismarx Paris Marx on x

  Google has been moving in this direction for years, and has faced pushback for things like featured snippets. The AI hype is allowing it to double down on its effort to make you spend more time on Google and less visiting the rest of the web. https://twitter.com/...

• @paleofuture Matt Novak on x

  Those source links are going to be clicked on even less than Twitter links. This is a huge problem for publishers. https://twitter.com/...

• @flglmn @flglmn on x

  what's the plan for when this utterly destroys any economic incentive for anyone to produce any new content about anything, except i guess for people who are deliberately producing misinformation for malicious ulterior purposes https://twitter.com/...

• @mattdpearce Matt Pearce on x

  I, for one, look forward to generating IP that helps Google generate more advertising revenue in exchange for less referral traffic. #cjpa https://twitter.com/...

• @ddayen David Dayen on x

  Competition is just a click away, but also, it's not https://twitter.com/...

• @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x

  Search is still a monopoly. “After Microsoft added OpenAI's chatbot to its Bing search engine in February, it surged in traffic rankings. But it has now returned to last year's levels, according to global traffic data from Cisco Umbrella.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @xoxogossipgita @xoxogossipgita on x

  If this happens Google ceases being a search engine and will start being a publishing platform. I do not know how one would search for information on the web that leads directly to the source material? https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  i think it is bad for journalism to not have a thriving and expansive press beyond “top” outlets and the economics of the business and the direction tech platforms are going in have not made that future any brighter (that i can see thus far)

• @thetomzone Tom Mckay on x

  the fun thing is that even when this inevitably destroys the value of Google search, Google has immense power to keep users softlocked in via Android and Chrome (and is default on Apple/iOS too) https://twitter.com/...

• @coreyspowell Corey S. Powell on x

  This is a really important point: From a business perspective, the goal of a Google AI is to make sure you never view primary sources on other web pages, only the chopped-and-processed information on Google's own site. https://twitter.com/...

• @dipanjand Dipanjan Das on x

  This announcement from Sundar starts with our new Search Generative Experience coming to Labs (https://labs.withgoogle.com/ ). I worked on this project during the past five months with many extraordinary collaborators spanning Google Research and our Search teams. 1/ https://twit…

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  Guess it was a sustaining innovation after all... - Good framing: behind —> front - Smart commerce integration - Smart integration of answers + expansions Well done, Google. https://www.youtube.com/...

• @pkafka Peter Kafka on x

  2004: Let's build our websites to make Yahoo happy! 2008: Let's build our websites to make Google happy! 2014: Actually let's focus on Facebook. 2019: Uh, actually let's go back to Google. Good ol' Google. 2023: Would you believe me if I said homepages are the new search? No? htt…

• @sarthakgh Sar Haribhakti on x

  I have found the entire Google-is-falling-behind-in- AI narrative very stupid. Today's update at IO is Pichai flexing. Google will put productized generative AI across its entire ecosystem for billions of people for free this year. The bar for app layer startups just went up 10x.…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  so in a world where search goes fully GenAI (which is still a big if), pages of links go away and you get a handful of citations i would imagine/guess this theoretically destroys small publisher traffic while rewarding the big outlets which may be weighted w/more authority https:…

• @samfbiddle Sam Biddle on x

  I can't imagine this helps Google defend itself against self-preferencing arguments https://twitter.com/...

• @google @google on x

  Generative AI capabilities in Search are especially helpful when deciding what to buy. They tap into Google's Shopping Graph, the world's most comprehensive dataset of constantly-changing products, sellers, brands, reviews and inventory. #GoogleIO https://twitter.com/...

• @techledes Connie Guglielmo on x

  Worth a watch: These kinds of capabilities will change the way all online retailers deliver shopping experiences using generative #AI. #GoogleIO https://twitter.com/...

• @brianroemmele Brian Roemmele on x

  🔮 By 2028 most people will no longer use a search engine or a search bar. Your private and personal AI agent will assemble a response and use search when needed by sending agents to search engines. It was not clear to some in 2023 that the future is not like 2003. https://twitter…

• @fredericl Frederic Lardinois on x

  Good. https://twitter.com/...

• @crawfax Sam Crawford on x

  Google just killed SEO #GoogleIO https://twitter.com/...

• @shiraovide Shira Ovide on x

  This is what Google's answer box with new AI looks like by @geoffreyfowler Very curious to see how people use this irl and how every website will pivot to get into the new answer box. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @backlon Dieter Bohn on x

  AI can help with complex shopping research, giving you things to consider as you look. Here are results for a 5 mile bike commute with hills. True story that Aventon is a great ebike. And you can ask follow up questions in conversation mode! https://twitter.com/...

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  And there it is... Generative AI right AT THE TOP of Google Search. Blue links we hardly knew ye. https://twitter.com/...

• @thekenyeung@mastodon.social Ken Yeung on mastodon

  Example of Bard's extensions including integration with Adobe Firefly (Adobe's generative #AI tool)  —  #googleio #io2023 #googleio2023

• @thekenyeung@mastodon.social Ken Yeung on mastodon

  Bard now supports Japanese and Korean languages.  —  #googleio

• @scottbelsky Scott Belsky on x

  our team @Adobe is psyched to partner w/ @Google and provide image generation capabilities for Bard using Firefly, our family of GenerativeAI models. more to come on this front... https://techcrunch.com/...

• @lmthang Thang Luong on x

  This is what our team, Multi-Bard (which this article https://www.cnbc.com/... revealed!), has been hard at work over that past few months. Very excited to see it coming to users very soon & more to come! https://twitter.com/...

• @sundarpichai Sundar Pichai on x

  3/ Bard is now running on PaLM 2, and we continue to evolve it with coding upgrades, export options to @gmail @googledocs, Japanese + Korean language support (with more on the way), the ability to ask questions using images with Google Lens + more. https://blog.google/...

• @mishaalrahman Mishaal Rahman on x

  Lots of cool stuff coming to Bard. If you're interested, Google's blog post on it just went up: https://blog.google/...

• @joannastern Joanna Stern on x

  Very interesting to see Google integrate with Adobe vs. creating their own AI image generator. Reminder: Adobe's option is trained on licensed or out-of-copyright content. https://twitter.com/...