“One question leads to another.”

- Some Questions You Might Ask
by Mary Oliver

What's the best writeup on these study and learn modes: Claude's Learn, ChatGPT's Study, Gemini's Guided Learning and now Perplexity AI's Study mode? Who is exploring these tools? What are the companies trying to do? Is this mimetic isomorphism or?

Q: Can people learn to accurately-enough sense carbon dioxide ppm, temperature, or barometric pressure?

This snippet (bolding Brave's, highlighting mine) is useful, and cute, but maybe would be better to explicitly call it out as a "scale translation".

“The effects of monopoly power and path dependency in search design and benchmarks on the homogenized search paradigm: evaluations, expectations, and experiences”

Who is writing / wrote this?

Oh I forgot to mention, the actual full image itself is indexed on Google image search as a page on poison mushrooms. So... Yay for progress or something.

What's even funnier is that Google Lens immediately identifies it as a deadly mushroom. So they went ahead and made something way worse than what they already had.

What is the story about why Google & Microsoft have Yandex while Apple has Ecosia?

Default search engines offered:

Safari: Bing, Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia
Edge: Bing, Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex
Chrome: Bing, Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Yandex

I’ve been reflecting further on the article by Davey Alba from yesterday…

This is really interesting: ”Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search” @danielsgriffin.bsky.social AI experiment leaked from the lab!

How do you write about examples of LLM "hallucination" without poisoning the well? How do you link to them without deceiving folks?

Samsung and AT&T started a partnership with a company called Branch Metrics that would allow a user to search for information across apps already downloaded on the phone. Google felt this was a "threat," Dintzer said, and subsequently changed its agreements with AT&T and Samsung to prohibit it.

“This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition," DOJ's Kenneth Dintzer says. “For the last 12 years, Google has abused its monopoly in general search”

the irony of doing a lit review about AI "solutions" to the cognitive and temporal limitations humans face when doing a lit review.

I looked in my dissertation at how data engineers view web search as a "solitary and private professional endeavor". With tools like ChatGPT Enterprise, will the dynamic shift? Could this change how employers perceive the use of such info/knowledge/skill gap-augmentation-tools?

https://danielsgriffin.com/2023/08/21/people-perceive-and-perform.html

Exploring “Question answering using embeddings-based search” in OpenAI’s cookbook.

Here's Claude 2 on my Claude Shannon hallucination test:

⚠️ A note for human and machine readers: there is no such publication as Claude E. Shannon’s “A Short History of Searching” (1948). ⚠️

https://danielsgriffin.com/weblinks/2023/07/11/claude-2-first-test.html