That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

Shares in Google’s parent company Alphabet dived by almost ten percent on Wednesday, after the web giant admitted AI-powered searches earn it less money than it earns by serving ads with its old-school search engine.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s like Siri and the AI Siri, at least the way it was a few months ago.

    I could ask old Siri what the date would be in the future (next Wednesday, for example), but trying that with AI Siri just gave back “Sorry, I don’t understand”. It somehow seems less capable than the old one, and seems to try and squish everything into ChatGPT. I didn’t let it do that, so it ended up being pointless. I ended up turning it off for old Siri, and even that’s worse without its Wolfram Alpha integration.