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Bing vs. Bard: We Compared Both Chatbots to See Which Is Better | Inverse
By Ian Carlos Campbell, March 27, 2023 Begun, the chatbot wars have. Microsoft was early out the gate with its updated version of Bing, appending chatbot functionality to its search engine and integrating both into the Edge browser, while Google trailed behind, only just recently making its Bard chatbot available to the public. Both companies…
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Is ChatGPT Closer to a Human Librarian Than It Is to Google?
A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search the web for you. By Chirag Shah, Published March 19, 2023 The prominent model of information access and retrieval before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant information – was interactive, personalized,…
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Similarities between Survivor and chess | Bard | Google
Editor’s Note: I asked Bard to summarize the similarities between the tv show Survivor and chess. Here’s the response… There are several similarities between the TV show Survivor and chess. Both games are strategic and require players to think ahead and plan their moves. Both games also involve a degree of luck, as players must…
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Google’s New AI Tools for Gmail, Docs Can Write Drafts for You – CNET
The search giant is testing generative writing and other AI features for its Workspace apps. By Nina Raemont, March 14, 2023 8:12 a.m. PT Google plans to bring new AI-powered tools to its suite of Workspace apps. In a blog post on Tuesday, the search giant said it’s starting by testing generative AI writing features…
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FEATURE – Libraries in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Information Today, Inc.
by Ben Johnson, February 13, 2023 Ben Johnson (bjohnson@councilbluffslibrary.org) is the adult services manager at the Council Bluffs Public Library in Iowa. You can ask Google, Alexa, Cortana, Watson, or Siri—but will you be able to ask your local library? A century or so ago, electricity was a new, quasi-magical thing—a novelty with few applications. Back…
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(49) The best sci-fi novel I read as a kid [ Bill Gates ] – YouTube
By Bill Gates 2.92M subscribers (49) The best sci-fi novel I read as a kid – YouTube 265,798 views Posted Nov 21, 2022 — Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land is a fantastic story—and it was also a turning point for me as a young reader. Learn more at https://gatesnot.es/3GsUiCF Source: (49) The best…
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Google’s Project Starline is the real deal | The Verge
Project Starline is the real deal. It makes a virtual call feel like a one-on-one conversation. But it’s unclear if it’s something most people will ever get to experience. By Jay Peters / @jaypeters, Oct 13, 2022, 5:30 AM PDT It looked like I could grab the apple. Jason Lawrence, a Google researcher, was sitting…
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Google now lets you request the removal of search results that contain personal data | Engadget
Results with your address, phone number or email will be reviewed ‘more quickly.’ By S. Dent, @stevetdent, September 21, 2022 4:49 AM Google is releasing a tool that makes it easier to remove search results containing your address, phone number and other personally identifiable information, 9to5Google has reported. It first revealed the “results about you”…
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I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo: 5 big takeaways | PCWorld
Promising utmost privacy, DuckDuckGo in the anti-Google search engine. But what’s it really like to use? Editor’s Note: Yes, I tried it, but I still use Google and DuckDuckGo… By Sam Singleton, Contributor, PCWorld, Jun 9, 2022 3:45 am PDT Google is far and away the most popular search engine—but sometimes it can feel more…
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Google Maps adds an ‘Immersive View’ of major cities | Engadget
Pan around popular tourist destinations directly from your phone. By A. Tarantola, @terrortola, May 11th, 2022 Google Maps is getting an “Immersive View” that will offer users digitally rendered looks at major US cityscapes, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told the audience at Google’s I/O 2022 keynote on Wednesday. Google Maps is getting an “Immersive View”…
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Belgium: KU Leuven Libraries, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) and Google to Put Thousands of Books and Historic Documents Online
From a KU Leuven Announcement: Image Source: KBR KU Leuven Libraries, KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) and Google signed agreements to share a large portion of important digitized documents reflecting the rich cultural and historical heritage located in the libraries. This entails several thousand works, some dating back to the 15th century, that will be…
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Google search’s next phase: context is king – The Verge
Google says search is still far from solved By Dieter Bohn@backlon Sep 29, 2021, 1:42pm EDT At its Search On event today, Google introduced several new features that, taken together, are its strongest attempts yet to get people to do more than type a few words into a search box. By leveraging its new Multitask…
