

Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024
5 snips Jul 3, 2024
UCLA scholar Safiya Noble discusses Google's AI overviews and its impact on search accuracy. They critique the prioritization of ad sales over information quality and explore AI advancements. The hosts joke about a librarian stuck with Google AI summaries and a Catholic priest's Gatorade baptism blunder. They cover the National Archive banning ChatGPT, LLMs outperforming humans in moral guidance, Taco Bell's AI initiatives, and predictions of AGI by 2027. The episode also questions the credibility of a graph on intelligence hierarchy.
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Intro
00:00 • 2min
Discussion on Google's AI Overviews Feature with Dr. Safiya Noble
01:38 • 2min
Critiquing Google's AI Technology in Search
03:30 • 23min
Google's AI Overviews and Search Results Accuracy
26:37 • 23min
AI Librarian and Catholic Priest Shenanigans
49:32 • 3min
National Archive Bans Employee Use of Chat GPT and Researchers Compare LLMs to Humans in Moral Guidance
52:53 • 2min
Exploring AI Implementation in Companies and AGI Speculation
55:02 • 4min
Analyzing Effective Compute and Intelligence Hierarchy Graph
58:36 • 3min