Younger people, tiring of all the sponsored search results of little value, are decamping to other platforms.
intercst
Google provides the source of the result which AI cannot provide since AI’s result is just the one with the highest probability which needs to be fact checked before being accepted as valid. AI v 2 needs to incorporate the scientific method to verify the output.
The Captain
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You can almost assume that the first 5 pages of “Sponsored Results” from a google search aren’t in your interest as a consumer, or even germane to the inputted search string.
intercst
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Just because one is bad does not make the other good.
tc!
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Do you see any sign that is coming? It seems that one of the problems these days is that some kooky theory can catch the imagination of some group and end up heavily disseminated such that it might look like the dominant theory, while a scientist of the field would know instantly that it was crap.
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…and yet, the outside the box thinker/citizen scientist imagines that The Scientists have it all wrong.
As I’ve read somewhere…you don’t have to know very much to think you know enough, but a heck of a lot to realise you don’t
Or, perhaps I made it up myself 
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This kind of idea has been around for a while.
Something similar was also said by Neil deGrasse Tyson: “One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you’re right, but not enough about the subject to know you’re wrong.”
Pete
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Probably where I got the idea…although my husband’s got a few…
A mind unfettered by the shackles of knowledge, skill and expertise …usually reserved for new residents, but quite a workhorse of a phrase across the board.
And, of course, the quality of scientific reasoning varies by discipline, problem area, and practitioner. In “hard” sciences like physics, this tends to be less obvious because there tends to be clear experiments that either prove or disprove any particular conjecture, although there are areas like astrophysics where the experiments are a bit more difficult. Whereas, in social sciences, the experiments typically fail to control all the variables … since there are so many and they are not all known … with the result that many experiments are not really repeatable.
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You made me post this…
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Sure you read that in the Urinal. I am sold.
In medicine we were asked some weeks ago for a causality on this board. We came up with a few for the condition. Then the truth we could be right and not know it as well. In fact most often even getting it right we can not see under the hood.
But in finance and econ what we are here for…the liars for your money are out in full force. Run away, run away!
I love it. Google is offering AI answers to searches posed as questions. The results are very good. The wrong results are between 1 in 5 to 1 in 10. You know when you get the wrong results. Humans can always put things to the smell test.
Well except when someone would quote the Urinal.
No but it’s the logical next step.
The Captain
The next desirable step, to be sure, but also a fundamentally difficult step, so maybe not the one actually achieved. It can be difficult even for subject matter experts at times.
Except when they can’t.
On the small handful of subjects where I know enough to know when I don’t know as much as I need, I’ve found it pretty easy to spot when the folk who’re sure they’re right have relied on Google/AI to enhance their confidence, but not their understanding.
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Dunning Krueger
Plus twenty
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Econ is my thing. The world is on edge for inflation in 2025.
Economists phd at Goldman Sachs are saying inflation.
Yet using Google AI I have documented fully why we get deflation and possible recession.
It has to do with knowing the right information but AI or carefully documented the facts are the same.
The phd economists at Goldman are pieces of work.
Throw out the phds, AI makes more sense.
I have been researching aspects of my game development asking Google questions. AI responses save me a lot if time with excellent accurate answers.
So when is the deflation you were predicting?
DB2
Tfg is saying day 1 tariffs. Musk et al are cutting some part of 2.8 trillion as fast as possible. Austerity
That is all as soon as possible. Nothing is in the way. Only tfg can decide to do otherwise.
Musk calls it a temporary hardship. Aren’t we lucky?
Btw if it goes as described by them, there will be rising interest rates with deflation and a recession. They didn’t tell you that.