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From Today, Creating Is Dead!
From The Noisy Channel

From Today, Creating Is Dead!

From Today, Creativity Is Dead!A common theme in the concerns about generative AI is that it will replace human-generated art and end creativity as we know it.daguerreotype...

Trust Through Provenance
From The Noisy Channel

Trust Through Provenance

The recent advances in generative AI have led many people to fear all manner of deepfakes — particularly text, images, audio, and video. People like Yuval NoahAI...

The Compressibility of Thought
From The Noisy Channel

The Compressibility of Thought

In a recent Tom Fishburne cartoon, one employee says “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote,” while another says, “AI makesgenerative...

Welcoming Our New Robot Overserfs
From The Noisy Channel

Welcoming Our New Robot Overserfs

These are early days for generative AI, but it already feels like we are at the dawn of a revolution in human-computer communication. Practically overnight, wefacets...

Is AI-Generated OK?
From The Noisy Channel

Is AI-Generated OK?

For as long as we have had needs, long before servers started asking us “Sorry, we don’t have Coke, is Pepsi ok?”, we have accepted substitutes for the products...

Maximal Marginal Creativity
From The Noisy Channel

Maximal Marginal Creativity

In 1998, Jaime Carbonell and Jade Goldstein proposed maximal marginal relevance (MMR) as way to balance the concerns of relevance and diversity. This measure is...

Minimalist Models for Search Ranking
From The Noisy Channel

Minimalist Models for Search Ranking

Search application developers put a lot of effort into optimizing the ranking of search results, especially in areas like ecommerce, where incremental ranking improvements...

UASG Elects New Leadership to Continue Building a Multilingual Internet
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

UASG Elects New Leadership to Continue Building a Multilingual Internet

By the UASG The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has elected a new Chair and three new Vice Chairs as its leadership team. Made up of representativesUASG...

The Ultimate Question
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Giving Bard a Coding Interview
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Exploring Search Intent as a Duality
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Effective Query Triage
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Helping Searchers Satisfice through Query Understanding
From The Noisy Channel

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...

UA Day: Global Effort to Drive a More Inclusive and Multilingual Internet
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...

A Guest Post from ChatGPT
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Throwing Needles Into Haystacks
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Upcoming Search Classes
From The Noisy Channel

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...

UASG and ICANN Announce Inaugural UA Day and Call for Proposals
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)...

Is The Valley Getting Cannier?
From The Noisy Channel

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...

Attention, Expertise, Trust
From The Noisy Channel

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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