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Google search is over (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JoBo@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Via @rodhilton@mastodon.social

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.
Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K." "What about Kenya?" "Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

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[–] Sumea@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it is not Artificial Intelligence. It is Average Intelligence. And they want it everywhere.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago

It's not intelligence at all. It does not understand what you ask it or what it tells you. It can string words together in a plausible sounding order. It cannot think.