Thought-provoking article titled "AI is Taking Water from the Desert" by The Atlantic's Karen Hao discusses the space and water needs of AI data centers and how those are on a collision course with the American West's already diminishing water resources.
Article titled "We tested AI Censorship" by Gizmodo authors Maxwell Zeff & Thomas Germain -- it talks about the tech industry's work to censor its own answers when asked controversial questions.
How is Google adding to its AI services since the deployment of ChatGPT?
In November 2023, Google has debuted its Google SGE experimental platform. Librarian Tessa Withorn experimented with this new tool and published those in the College & Research Libraries News. Read her thoughts on this new tool and how it might be useful for us educators.
Microsoft has released its Copilot AI tool within its suite of applications (2024).
Google has added "Google Bard" to its services (in March 2023).
Google's Bard is "an interface to a large learning model (LLM) enabling users to collaborate with generative AI" (see footnote 1, below).
In short, Bard is Google's answer to Open AI's ChatGPT.
You can try out Bard and see how it works.
Here is an article in the College & Research Libraries News journal about Google's Search Labs / SGE experience.
Here is a NY Times article (Dec. 2023) about updates to Bard, as Google races to keep up with OpenAI's Chatbot.
How is Microsoft adding to its AI services since the deployment of ChatGPT?
Microsoft also updated its Edge browser to work more efficiently with this new version of Bing.
Microsoft is collaborating with Open AI, the company that created the ChatGPT chatbot which has taken the world by storm.
How is DuckDuckGo adding to its AI services since the deployment of ChatGPT?
DuckDuckGo is a search engine focused on user privacy.
It too has added AI to its engine, a trial product which it is calling "DuckAssist."
If this trial goes well, DuckDuckGo may release this capability to all users (see footnote 2, below)
How is Ask.com adding to its AI services since the deployment of ChatGPT?
Ask.com has added "ask-ai" to its search-engine capabilities.
ask-ai is a tool which "aggregates text-heavy company knowledge and customer communications to reveal ChatGPT-like answers and actionable insights" (see footnote 3, below).
It seems this search-engine provider is focusing its AI work on helping corporate employees mine their own company's data corpus and then generate answers to help with efficiencies for the company's processes and customer relations.
Other AI-powered Search Assistant / Search Engine Softwares:
Like ChatGPT for academic research, it is being used by Harvard, Stanford, and others. It does the mining for its large-language model (LLM) within academic databases.
An AI search engine also using research papers for its LLM.
Multidisciplinary and industry-specific platform with proprietary knowledge graph.
Yewno, information about this app and how it connects with ExLibris' Primo product.
Multidisciplinary and industry-specific platform with proprietary knowledge graph.
Google-AI-driven app for helping students learn multidisciplinary content.
App using artificial intelligence to generate AI characters that are interactive.
Kore, found at kore.ai
Conversational-app platform.
AI for your personal needs (blogging, social media content generation, "switch case" tool, etc.).
Footnotes:
1. Manyika, n.d., para. 3
2. DuckDuckGo News, 2023, para. 4
3. Ask-ai.com, 2022, para.2-3
