Daniel Griffin
danielsgriffin.bsky.social
Daniel Griffin
@danielsgriffin.bsky.social
building @Hypandra, your curiosity engine
“One question leads to another.”

- Some Questions You Might Ask
by Mary Oliver
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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?
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Q: Can people learn to accurately-enough sense carbon dioxide ppm, temperature, or barometric pressure?
March 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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".
November 20, 2024 at 11:25 PM
“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?
November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Daniel Griffin
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.
April 21, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Reposted by Daniel Griffin
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.
April 20, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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
March 22, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I’ve been reflecting further on the article by Davey Alba from yesterday…
“Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information”
How might Google support users to calibrate trust within the tool itself?
danielsgriffin.com
October 13, 2023 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by Daniel Griffin
This is really interesting: ”Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search” @danielsgriffin.bsky.social AI experiment leaked from the lab!
October 6, 2023 at 5:02 AM
How do you write about examples of LLM "hallucination" without poisoning the well? How do you link to them without deceiving folks?
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft's Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.
www.wired.com
October 6, 2023 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by Daniel Griffin
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.
September 12, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Reposted by Daniel Griffin
“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”
September 12, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Daniel Griffin
the irony of doing a lit review about AI "solutions" to the cognitive and temporal limitations humans face when doing a lit review.
September 12, 2023 at 1:18 PM
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?
August 28, 2023 at 6:25 PM
Exploring “Question answering using embeddings-based search” in OpenAI’s cookbook.
July 12, 2023 at 4:40 PM
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
Claude 2 on my Claude Shannon hallucination test
Claude 2 fails my Claude Shannon hallucination test, producing a summary of a non-existent publication.
danielsgriffin.com
July 11, 2023 at 9:13 PM