Mollick Says Google AI Overview Transforms Web and E-Commerce
Wharton professor highlights AI Overview effects on search and online commerce.
Ethan Mollick posted that Google AI Overview alone would profoundly change the web and the information people consume and act on, adding that the shift already appears underway and also touches hundreds of billions of dollars in e-commerce and advertising. Simon Willison replied that repeated past inaccuracies have left him unable to trust the feature and that upgrades would be difficult to detect.
Its hard to imagine, even if you ignore literally everything else associated with AI, that Google AI Overview alone would not profoundly change the nature of the web, and the information we consume and act on as a result, over time. Its obviously already starting to do that.
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Mollick Says Google AI Overview Transforms Web and E-Commerce
Wharton professor highlights AI Overview effects on search and online commerce.
Ethan Mollick posted that Google AI Overview alone would profoundly change the web and the information people consume and act on, adding that the shift already appears underway and also touches hundreds of billions of dollars in e-commerce and advertising. Simon Willison replied that repeated past inaccuracies have left him unable to trust the feature and that upgrades would be difficult to detect.
Its hard to imagine, even if you ignore literally everything else associated with AI, that Google AI Overview alone would not profoundly change the nature of the web, and the information we consume and act on as a result, over time. Its obviously already starting to do that.
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Ethan Mollick@emollick(And that also ignores its impact on hundreds of billions of dollars of e-commerce and advertising)
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SW Simon Willison@simonw@emollick I just wish I could trust it! It's burned me too many times, and that's tough because if they upgrade it how am I meant to notice that it's better?
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