> "… by making them necessary entry points! Muahahaha!"
Starting with Windows 11 26H2, the Start Menu will be removed and replaced with Copilot. In order to use a locally hosted app, an externally hosted LLM will need to be instructed to launch it. The reliability is phenomenal: our testing has shown it can launch the right app with 95% accuracy.
Users will also need to drink a Monster™ verification can every time they launch the start menu if they do not have a Premium AI PRO Ultra MAX account. Users may chose to skip verification process if they agree to the new EULA where it is stipulated that they must meet a weekly quota of Big Macs™ stamps. Failing that your Copilot™ Account will enter lock-down mode where a full document, body and facial scan must be "performed" to recover it.
We think about it like this: all of these agents will be most useful to users if they provide valuable answers. So they will be looking for valuable content for grounding their answer.
There are exploits, you can overfit on whatever they currently use as an objective function. But those tend to be temporary. So in the long run, valuable content will win. That's what we aim to create. It's a fine line.
Do you doubt the statement on how to maximize usefulness? Or do you mean that the companies behind the models might not optimize (exclusively) for usefulness to the user?
> Do you doubt the statement on how to maximize usefulness?
Yes; the customer here is the site using it, not Google end users, who'll tend to accept whatever's the top search result even if it's deeply wrong or complete slop.
The wellbeing of search users isn't really the priority here, right?
Yes, that is correct. We help the brands, not the end user.
Let me try to rephrase the line of thinking:
To maximize value to the end user, the [AI search] models generally aim to be helpful. The companies building these models [OpenAI, etc.] are incentivized to make the model use helpful content.
Our goal is to be aligned with their objective function long term. And that incentivizes us to create helpful content.
Not all of this is a given. We don't know for sure how it will play out. There will always be ways to game the system. But we think those will get fixed over time.
Edit: added some clarifications on what I mean by "models"
> To maximize value to the paying customer, the models generally aim to be seen as helpful by Google's algorithm. The companies building these models are incentivized to make the model seem to use helpful content.
SEO does the same thing; the appearance of useful to Google is more important than the actual being useful to Google's visitors.
> New York City’s water (including drinking water) is unfiltered, making it the largest unfiltered water system in the country. Were New York to begin filtering its water, it would cost the city approximately 1 million dollars per day to operate the filtration plant.
They have hundreds of sampling stations to check daily.
> they are very representative of the views of the middle east
Al Jazeera is primarily funded by the government of Qatar, an American ally and (currently) enemy of Iran. It reflects Qatar's views, not that of "the middle east" as a whole.
DADT was a significant improvement over the status quo of "we ask, you tell, and then you get dishonorably discharged". Considering it evidence of homophobia is revisionism. Did it go far enough? No. Was it a good step towards where we wanted to go? Yes.
> It passed both houses of Congress by large, veto-proof majorities. Support was bipartisan, though about a third of the Democratic caucus in both the House and Senate opposed it. Clinton criticized DOMA as "divisive and unnecessary".
Again he still signed it. It’s like Susan Collins who always has “serious misgivings” about things that her fellow Republicans do and then votes the party line anyway trying to stay in her party’s good graces while at the same time not pissing off her liberal constituents
It was gonna be law either way; signing it removed a political weapon from the folks pushing its passage. Arguing this is something Clinton did to gay people is counterfactual.
That’s a really poor excuse to sign on to something that you disagree with. I would not sign a petition for making the “Confederacy Day” law if I lived in Mississippi just because it would become law anyway. You have to stand for something.
Would you think it was okay if Tim Scott signed such a law just so his fellow Republicans couldn’t hold it against him in the primary? Well actually I wouldn’t be surprised if he did…
I had to have meetings with… myself, at times, for compliance reasons.
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