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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you knew nothing about Africa, congratulations, you don't know that Kenya exists. It's a microcosm of what would be a major problem if you don't fact-check the bot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not asking for fact checks. That’s telling the machine it’s wrong. It thinks of you as acting in good faith, so it reacts accordingly.

This, like most of these criticisms, has fundamental misunderstandings about the technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn't understand what I was saying. You have to independently fact check the bot which means performing Google searches anyway. At that point, it's redundant to even ask the bot if the endpoint is the same, you'll be on whatever search engine you're using trawling results.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In what way is that different from googling the answer and having to get a second source?

This is hysterical, not meaning funny.