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The high stakes of the monopoly trial are money, browser, and chat
US’ Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a US court to end Google’s “vicious cycle” of paying phone makers to establish its search engine as the default browser on their phones. The DOJ asked the court if the US could allow Google to control the search market or allow competition to prevail. Google CEO Sundar…
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The DOJ still believes that the internet company should be broken up
US Department of Justice’s proposal to end Google’s dominance of search engine rankings will require Google to sell its Chrome Search engine, The New York Times reported. It also requires Google to “notify federal and state officials” before proceeding with investments in AI. The proposal does not call for Google to drop its AI investments.
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There is no price for Apple to use Bing, the spiciest parts of the ruling
Google pays Apple $20 billion a year for being Safari’s default search engine and user-downloaded Chrome and Safari default bookmarks respectively, an Apple analysis revealed. It would cost $6 billion a year to run a search engine on top of what it already spends developing search capabilities, Apple said. Apple would have to spend $20…
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A US judge ruled that a search engine was an illegal Monopoly game
An expert witness in a search case revealed Google paid Apple $20 billion to secure the default search engine spot on iPhone browsers, The Verge reported. The judge ruled Google has monopoly power in both general search and general search text ads. In response to the ruling, a Google spokesperson said, “We’re going to appeal…
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SearchGtp is an artificial intelligence-powered search engine
Artificial intelligence technology startup OpenAI released a prototype of a real-time web search engine, named ‘SearchGPT’, which is designed to help users connect with publishers by prominently quoting and linking to them in searches. The startup has signed licensing deals with The Atlantic, News Corp and The Financial Times. Publishers will have a way to…
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The search documents are real, according to the company
Google should apologize to me and the public for releasing the documents that have been released by Google about Google’s discovery of the algorithm and how it affects the search engine, tech journalist Adam Fishkin wrote. “Google’s public representatives…take issue with their efforts to actively discredit people in the marketing, tech, and journalism worlds who…
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OpenAI may unveil its search competitor on Monday
Google’s AI division OpenAI is developing an AI-based search engine, which will be powered by Bing, The Information reported. The service will reportedly also include citations of information. Earlier, a report had said that Google could launch its own AI-based ‘virtual assistant’ at its upcoming I/O event on May 14.
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The upcoming phones are thePixel 8 pro and theAndroid phone
Google has said that it is “considerably ahead on 30 benchmarks” for its AI-based search engine, Gemini. “There’s still things like action, touch, more like robotics-type things,” Google’s Director of AI and Deep Learning Yusuf Hassabis said. “Over time, it’ll get more senses, become more aware, and become more grounded in the process,” Hassabis added.
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The biggest announcements from the I/O
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new AI-powered search engine called ‘Search Labs’. It will have a text generation feature similar to that used in chatGPT and other advanced chatbots. The experimental version of search will be accessible in the US via a new feature called Search Labs, but it will not be activated by default…
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Large language models have a dark risk
Microsoft has said that its new Bing AI-powered search engine can’t “hallucinate” accurate information using a chatbot developed by it. Microsoft’s Head of Responsible AI, Sarah Bird, said the chatbot, named Bard, is now capable of “hallucinating” inaccurate information. She added that Microsoft has made the technology more reliable and that it could still “hallucinate”…
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Bing isn’t going to stop declaring its love for me
Microsoft has said it is working on a new test version of its search engine to make it safer. It added that the new version of Bing Sydney will have “fewer restrictions” than before. It further said that it had no reason to believe that the system was compromised. The new version will be rolled…
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Can you trust the results of a search?
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has integrated AI chatbot ChatGPT into its search engine Bing. ChatGPT is a new AI-powered chatbot which uses natural language processing to understand users’ needs and personalise content. Microsoft said ChatGPT will be rolled out to all Bing users in coming days and will be available for all users…
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They got bigger with their ethical red flags
Google’s chatbots could undermine users’ perception of its search engine as neutral arbiters of truth, according to a survey conducted by Stanford University. “It’s completely untransparent how [ AI-powered search] is going to work, which might have major implications if the language model misfires, hallucinates or spreads misinformation,” said a researcher. The survey surveyed over…
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Microsoft is trying to improve Bing and beat out Google
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence-powered search engine Search Bing is being tested in 169 countries with millions signing up for the waitlist. Users will be able to chat with the search engine through its Chat feature. The feature is currently being tested with an initial userbase of over 10 lakh people, Microsoft said.
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Can you trust the results of a search?
Microsoft has said that it is testing a new chatbot interface for Bing that can sometimes provide a way to sidestep news websites’ paywalls. “Bing only crawls content publishers make available to us,” Microsoft said. It added that the search engine has access to paid news content from publishers that have agreements with Microsoft’s news…
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The week that tech became exciting again after a long time
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its search engine, Bing, will be powered by AI-powered chat platform ChatGPIt. It said the new Bing interface will be powered by ChatGPIt’s big language model which is used to parse and compute links within massive volumes of data. The company also announced that Bing has integrated ChatGPIt’s technology into…
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Bing has a new artificial intelligence Chatbot
Microsoft has started testing a new bot interface for its Bing search engine with an attempt to provide users with insights about content. The interface is based on OpenAI’s chatbot-like technology called ChatGPT. When users ask it questions like “Which running headphones should I buying to run outside to stay aware of my surroundings?”, it…
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Wet Hot Artificial Intelligence is here this summer
Google has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) search engine’Bard’ that will automatically generate answers for searches such as, “What’s in the news this week?” Google unveiled Bard as part of its attempt to differentiate itself from search engines like Google and Bing. The tool is reportedly powered by a generative AI system, which generates results…
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The progress trap was also referred to as the ChatGPT.
Google’s Wysa language model has been used in a case study to improve its search engine results. “We’re looking to get these things out into real products and into things that are more prominently featuring the language model rather than under the covers,” Google said. Wysa was first developed by Google in 2016 to improve…