Sydney, I mean Bing, just flashed me some of its internal instructions, which seem to show one way that advertising revenue might be generated, through suggested follow-up queries.
BIG TECH
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Bing’s New Version Shows Limitations in Location Search Tasks
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I just got access to the new, more unhinged version Bing and it's a pretty wild. I asked it where a movie was showing near me, and it told me to use Google Maps.
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Bing’s Chained Search Lookups: An Illustrative Example
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Example illustrating Bing's apparent ability to do chained sequences of search lookups:
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New Bing Chat Success: First Week Learnings and User Discovery
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Interesting blog post on learnings from the first week of the new Bing: https://
blogs.bing.com/search/februar
y-2023/The-new-Bing-Edge–Learning-from-our-first-week
… Cool to see chat is working well: "The ease of use and approachability of chat has been an early success […] people are using it as a tool for more general discovery of the world". -
Google Incentivizes Employees for RLHF Bard Development
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Google is offering an internal badge to their employees who help RLHF Bard. And slowly, RLHF will eat the world
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Bing’s New ChatGPT-Based Chat Feature Sparks AI Discussion
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Remarkable conversation with Bing's new chat feature based on the ChatGPT technology
#RuleoftheRobots #AI https://
stratechery.com/2023/from-bing
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Barclays warns software stocks getting ahead of themselves
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Elastic, Couchbase, et al: software is getting ahead of itself, says Barclays (and this from a bull on software stocks) https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/elas
tic-couchbase-et-al-software-is-getting-ahead-of-itself-says-barclays
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Microsoft Bing Chatbot Generates Inaccurate Responses Reports
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As expected, Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is generating some puzzling and inaccurate responses, @KYWeise reports:
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Perplexity AI Misrepresents Yann LeCun Meta Cofounder Status
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“Yann LeCun” on @perplexity_ai
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Big Tech CEOs Should Have Retained Top Talent Over Layoffs
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The Microsoft -> @Planetscale pipeline The Facebook -> @Vercel pipeline
The Google -> @OpenAI pipeline i think in retrospect the bigtech CEOs will regret focusing more on laying off their bottom 10000 people rather than engaging and retaining their top 100