Google has been quietly striking deals with some publishers to use new generative AI tools to publish stories, according to in Adweek. The deals, reportedly worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, are apparently part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a six-year-old program that funds , , and other resources for newsrooms. But the move into generative AI publishing tools would be a new, and likely controversial, step for the company. According to Adweek, the program is currently… Source link
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Read More »Report detailing ‘greenwashing’ ads on Google prompts Democratic lawmakers to write search engine’s CEO
Several House Democrats asked Google’s CEO on Friday for explanations about recent allegations that the search engine has profited from “greenwashing” ads placed by major oil companies. A November report from The Center for Countering Digital Hate accused Google of enabling oil companies’ greenwashing efforts — or their attempts to appear more sustainable and environmentally friendly than they actually are. Several major oil companies — including BP, ExxonMobil,… Source link
Read More »Google’s Code-as-Policies Lets Robots Write Their Own Code
Researchers from Google’s Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified goal. CaP uses a hierarchical prompting technique for code generation that outperforms previous methods on the HumanEval code-generation benchmark. The technique and experiments were described in a paper published on arXiv. CaP differs from previous attempts to use LLMs to… Source link
Read More »ICE takes $1.1 billion write down for stake in crypto platform Bakkt
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is taking a $1.1 billion write-off for its holdings of crypto platform Bakkt (BKKT) according to an SEC filing late Friday afternoon. Atalanta-based Bakkt, which offers crypto and other digital assets to institutional investors, is taking a $1.3 to $1.4 impairment on a loss of goodwill in addition to $150 to $160 million on its intangible assets. Cryptocurrencies are considered intangible assets based on Generally Accepted Principles of Accounting (GAAP),… Source link
Read More »How Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt helped write A.I. laws in Washington without publicly disclosing investments in A.I. startups
About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. It was a powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate: to advise the U.S. government on how to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other technologies to enhance the national security of the United States. The mandate was simple: Congress directed the new… Source link
Read More »Google Docs will start nudging some users to write less dumbly
Google Docs could soon suggest ways to improve the quality of your writing in addition to fixing straightforward grammar and spelling errors, the company has announced. A purple squiggly line will appear under suggestions to help make your writing more concise, inclusive, active, or to warn you away from inappropriate words. These new Google suggestions have long been available via third-party services like Grammarly, which is able to integrate with Google Docs and aims to help improve… Source link
Read More »Google Docs can write your meta descriptions
Was the meta description for this article written by Google? Or a human editor at Search Engine Land? You can’t tell, can you? That’s how far machine learning has come. Read on the learn the “shocking” truth. Auto-generating content summaries. Earlier this year, Google started automatically generating content summaries for Docs users. Google explains the technology behind how it works in this blog post if you want to dive into the natural language understanding (NLU) and natural… Source link
Read More »How to Write for Google’s Core Algorithms, User Intent & SEO
On May 4, Google released a broad core algorithm update called the May 2020 Core Update. The May 2020 Core Update is now rolling out live. As is typical with these updates, it will typically take about one to two weeks to fully roll out. — Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 4, 2020 As usual, webmasters took to social media to express their dismay. Core Update in COVID Time… WOW.. #DeadlyCombo pic.twitter.com/398mZvBoru — Saket Gupta (@iSKGTi) May 4, 2020 Every SEO guy rn Source link
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