• @mkwt@lemmy.world
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      These are all general opinion statements. There aren’t any verifiable facts like, “on this date at a meeting with x we discussed how AI project y is myopic and non-user-centered.”

    • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      Some companies have you sign things after leaving.

      Obviously, when you start laying people off, or do stupid shit like stack ranking, some people are going to walk out and just blab about all the dumb shit your employer does/did - and they’re heroes for doing so.

        • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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          I think that Amazon and Meta (where this is a known practice) do both. I’ve not signed anything in tech that stops me talking about internal company practices or any work that might have resulted in “voluntary” dismissal, but others in these companies that do the Jack Walsh thing and fire their employees do…

      • @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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        What are they gonna do if you refuse to sign? Fire you?

        If this guy voluntarily left, then he wasn’t getting a severance package that they could withhold (and on that note, this is a good reason to include involuntary severence in your employment contract, if you can negotiate it).

        • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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          For many, it’s the severance offered that makes them sign. If you’re about to lose your job, a few months pay, and free relocation back home if your visa is due to be cancelled is likely enough to make you sign something.

          I’m not condoning it, at all. I think the practice is fucking disgusting, and have seen it wreck lives, but it’s a reality in many tech companies, including Google under Sundar.

            • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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              My understanding is that while you’re 100% being terminated (and are ineligible for rehire) what you sign indicates that you’re actually volunteering to resign.

              For more info on it, look up Amazon’s Focus and Pivot programs.

              • @PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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                Laws will differ in different places, but I’m familiar with 3 categories of terminations:

                1. With cause (firing)
                2. Without cause (layoff)
                3. Voluntary (quitting)

                When someone is terminated with cause or quits, they are not entitled to severance and they do not collect unemployment insurance. When someone is laid off, the employer is obligated to pay a severence package.

                The Amazon focus and pivot program is interesting. That definitely looks like they’re bribing low performers to quit, and I smell an ulterior motive. Maybe it’s to get them to sign an NDA but I feel like it’s to avoid wrongful dismissed lawsuits. Although I suppose why not both?

  • @ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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  • Redex
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    To be fair, this could be very make or break for Google. If someone else solves AI search properly, and they can’t catch up, it would be really bad for them. G+/Facebook were another market completely so it wasn’t really taking any of their current market share.

    But I do think they are panicking a bit too much.

  • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    I’m going to start calling all these bullshit posts as they are.

    They aren’t entertaining. Karma is not even a thing anymore on Lemmy. So why are you lying?

    • @Atrichum@lemmy.world
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      My understanding is that Google is doing a partial roll out of AI summary so most people don’t have it yet.

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        So that pulled out text essentially saying the exact opposite of what the OP screenshot says is not the same thing?

        • @Zron@lemmy.world
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          No, that’s a card that’s been standard in Google searches for years. It basically copy pastes an excerpt from an article written by someone else.

          The AI card is an entirely new feature that is being rolled out where an LLM attempts to fill the same roll without deliberately copying a third party source.

    • @schteph@lemmy.world
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      I won’t say they’re not making it up, but their screenshot has “AI overview”, yours doesn’t. It is probable that “normal” google gives different results than “AI” Google.

      • @cottonmon@lemmy.world
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        I tried it on the Gemini web app and couldn’t replicate the results. Is that different from the AI overview?

    • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      Your’s is a “featured snippet”, which is where it highlights a relevant portion from a top result.
      The AI results have the AI synthesize a new sentence or set of paragraphs answering the question using data from multiple sources.

      They’re different results because you didn’t seem to get the AI search results. After making it available to everyone they’ve been hit with a bunch of weird results and have started scrambling to manually remove the particularly strange ones as they crop up.

      This is what it typically looks like:

    • @mlg@lemmy.world
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      This is a normal engine search lol. All the memes are from the AI response feature, similar to Bing’s GPT tab.

    • eatham 🇭🇲
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      This is about the new ai thing on Google, which you clearly don’t have, so they probably arnt lying. Look at the post before you reply.

      • @DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
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        Invite only, then when they didn’t have enough users, they tried to force it on everyone in conjunction with trying to force them to use their real names on YouTube. The whole thing was just an absolute master class in fucking up a launch from start to finish.

  • @AIhasUse@lemmy.world
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    This is especially interesting, considering he left Google 3 years ago, according to his website. It’s a bit misleading to put this old tweet up alongside a recent Google screenshot.

  • @Juice@midwest.social
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    I am a software developer, this story isn’t really about that though. When I was first becoming interested in coding I was reading about vr and ar and how it would be this huge multi billion dollar market in the next few years and I thought that sounded awesome, as it could enhance our lived experiences with info for the curious, or decorate the real world with computer generated architecture, sculpture, even some ads to pay for the whole thing. I said I’m gonna get into computer programming and then transition into vr/ar once I learn a few things.

    Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down. Just another big tech grift, like cryptocurrency and now AI. Ai is probably the worst example of all because it got pushed out to soak up a bunch of excess cloud computing when crypto crashed, and now its a huge real estate scheme as well since there’s a big rush to build data centers to handle the artificial demand. You wanna know the next big bubble to bet against? Its ai and all the related industries.

    It requires massive amounts of computing power to accomplish the most mundane tasks, which require electricity created by burning fossil fuels. All so your boss can spend less time writing emails letting you know you’ve been laid off, and political advisors can mass produce legislation to take away your rights.

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down.

      The way advanced capitalism can’t even grow a product before trying to strangle it for every last penny is all that saves us from special Black Mirror levels of hell.

      • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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        Yes, the sense of humor is still somewhat limited in AIs. Anyway, Andi is not designed to tell jokes, but rather to give reliable answers to questions and this it does quite well…

  • @perishthethought@lemm.ee
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    How do you get the AI results on google.com? When I search for anything, it shows a summary and then all the results, sponsors, etc… Nothing is tagged as “AI”.

    (I never visit google so forgive me if this has an obvious answer)