Sundar Pichai on AI changing society.

-The current technology is powerful yet immature and can make errors.
-He sees the most likely scenario as AI acting as a productivity booster for many.
-New jobs will be created.
-'All of us feel the weight of, for a technology like AI…

Grok can now process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. Grok-1.5V will be available soon to early testers and existing Grok users.
x.ai/blog/grok-1.5v

This is a must read.
Information gain FTW.

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There's still lots of turbulence as the core update continues to roll out.

This site is interesting. I haven't worked with them in a while, but they still have me on GSC. Huge increases on most, but not all pages. Many are product pages.

Super impressed with my first attempt at making an Agent in Vertex AI.

It's grounded in my site's content.

This has so much potential. But it is not perfect. In one answer it referred to me as a Google employee. Nope! There are other hallucinations as well.

I'm going to learn…

My notes and a few screenshots from the Google Cloud Next keynote.

There's so much!

docs.google.com/document/d/1Aw…

SGE AI Overviews for commercial product queries don't only give more visibility to products but also reviews and guides, through the carousels! Another reason for online stores to invest more in informational content that provides context and support in the buying journey to…

This definitely seems to be a confusing topic for people. The old HCU classifier is going away completely. Now multiple systems are assessing the helpfulness of content. And those systems are part of Google's core ranking systems. So 'helpfulness of content' is not a separate…

It is fascinating watching David use ChatGPT (he calls it Chad) as his gardening assistant.

He is constantly telling me new things he's learned about soil chemistry, composting, crop rotation and much more. I just walked by and heard him saying, 'Is there a website where I can…

New Google developer launch today:

- Gemini 1.5 Pro is now available in 180+ countries via the Gemini API in public preview
- Supports audio (speech) understanding capability, and a new File API to make it easy to handle files
- New embedding model!

developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemini…