It objectively did, but that is beside the point. If they’re getting some of the lost customers back by adding “gemeni overview” then they they’re justified. There’s no point in cooking michelin star level food if your customers mostly go to KFC.

Why defend them when they’ve shown nothing but contempt for their customers?

Because I don’t want to let hate blind me to a reasonable opinion.

To be fair, Google has lost a lot of business to ChatGPT & friends who are not offering a list of actual content associated with the search at all. Hate Google as much as you want and I’m sure most of it is warranted, but they’re not completely evil in this case

I think there’s an important semantic difference between worse performance and correctness. Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

The neat part is that we can’t even claim that they’re little mistakes or that there’s few of them.

That’s such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that

It already exists, lots of institutions people work with know way more than just their age. They could really provide an anonymous way of validating someone’s age without divulging their identity. This can also be done in such a way that the verification provider doesn’t know the requester either so they don’t have a way of tracking user habits

This isn’t surprising, 20% of the world’s supply of literally anything would have profound impacts with how tightly coupled the world supply chain is. When that resource is a basic need such as petrol, things tend to become dramatic quite quicly

Not for me. Looks like CNN it’s not free everywhere. Interesting.

Here you go

I was the car they were waved into a few hours ago. But the car doing the waving was from the incoming lane (left lane on this picture) so it didn’t even register that they stopped. I wasn’t even looking left, I was just suddenly cut off and hit the brakes as a reflex all the while wondering what happened and why my car is slowing down.