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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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The Ultimate Question
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the supercomputer Deep Thought takes 7.5 million years of calculation to determine that the answer to the “ultimate question...
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Giving Bard a Coding Interview
Thanks to this post by Behdad Esfahbod, I’ve been reminiscing about an interview problem I used to use at Google and LinkedIn. Google just announced that Bard can...
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Exploring Search Intent as a Duality
Most of us who work on search focus on its engineering or product aspects. But I feel it’s valuable to also look at search philosophically. I’m no expert on philosophy...
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Effective Query Triage
Search evaluation requires a variety of strategies.Evaluating search experiments, such as A/B tests, should focus on the size and direction of their impact.Alerting...
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Helping Searchers Satisfice through Query Understanding
This morning, I had the opportunity to present an invited talk at Walmart’s AI Summit. Not surprisingly, a lot of folks were excited about the potential of ChatGPT...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UA Day: Global Effort to Drive a More Inclusive and Multilingual Internet
This press release was originally published on icann.org ICANN and the UASG to Mobilize the Global Internet Community for Universal Acceptance LOS ANGELES – 09UA...
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A Guest Post from ChatGPT
Since Medium decided to allow AI-generated content as long as it’s clearly disclosed as such, I decided to give it a whirl.Prompt EngineeringMy first prompt was...
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Throwing Needles Into Haystacks
Searching for relevant results has been compared to finding a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, most searchers have it easier than that, since haystacks don’t index...
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Upcoming Search Classes
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2023 is off to a great start for you.Are you excited to kick off the new year by learning more about search?If so, you’re in luck...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG and ICANN Announce Inaugural UA Day and Call for Proposals
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...
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Is The Valley Getting Cannier?
In 1970, roboticist Masahiro Mori coined the phrase “uncanny valley” (不気味の谷 in the original Japanese) to denote the phenomenon that when a machine seems close-but...
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Attention, Expertise, Trust
I’m old enough to remember when the web was new, and honest enough to admit that I was a skeptic at the time. Fortunately, I was wrong, and I owe my career to the...
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What is Not Search?
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Search is unquestionably my hammer, so it’s easy for me to frame everything as a search problem. After...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Make Your Systems UA-Ready with Our New Code Samples!
By Satish Babu, Chair, UA Technology Working Group The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), in partnership with Cofomo Inc., have developed Universal Acceptance...
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New UA Local Initiative in Sri Lanka Aims to Accelerate Adoption of Internationalized ccTLDs
By the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Sri Lanka is a densely populated, ethnically diverse island of 21.7 million people, with two official languages...
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Let’s Talk About Resume Screening
With apologies to Bruno, we don’t talk about resume screening. But we should.Resume screening is usually the first step in the hiring process for active candidates...
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Testing Reveals Popular Web Hosting Tools are Not UA-Ready
By Nabil Benamar, Chair, UA Measurement Working Group Web hosting tools are critical to managing and maintaining a functional website. They are the building blocks...
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Technical Interviewing: Be Better
Technical interviewing is hard, but that’s no excuse for it to be so terrible. Since candidates generally don’t have much leverage to negotiate the interview process...
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Query Similarity
I started writing about query understanding in 2016, working my way up from low-level concerns like language identification and character normalization to higher...
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