Published on: 2025-08-03 16:53:10
Last week, the phrase "You can't lick a badger twice" unexpectedly went viral on social media. The nonsense sentence—which was likely never uttered by a human before last week—had become the poster child for the newly discovered way Google search's AI Overviews makes up plausible-sounding explanations for made-up idioms. Google users quickly discovered that typing any concocted phrase into the search bar with the word "meaning" attached at the end would generate an AI Overview with a purported
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 09:06:31
Computer architects can’t agree on a way to find the average. For years, academic practitioners in this field have been arguing about the appropriate way to summarize the average performance of their designs. That is: given \(n\) workloads, if system \(A\) outperforms system \(B\) by \(S_1, S_2, \ldots, S_n\) on each, how much faster should you say system \(A\) is, on average? I think this argument is kind of pointless through. For the most part, people tend to use the arithmetic mean \(\left(
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Language can seem almost infinitely complex, with inside jokes and idioms sometimes having meaning for just a small group of people and appearing meaningless to the rest of us. Thanks to generative AI, even the meaningless found meaning this week as the internet blew up like a brook trout over the ability of Google search's AI Overviews to define phrases never before uttered. What, you've never heard the phrase "blew up like a brook trout"? Sure, I just made it up, but Google's AI overviews res
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Language can seem almost infinitely complex, with inside jokes and idioms sometimes having meaning for just a small group of people and appearing meaningless to the rest of us. Thanks to generative AI, even the meaningless found meaning this week as the internet blew up like a brook trout over the ability of Google search's AI Overviews to define phrases never before uttered. What, you've never heard the phrase "blew up like a brook trout"? Sure, I just made it up, but Google's AI overviews res
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 12:24:29
Google TL;DR Google Search’s AI-powered summary, called AI Overviews, is generating false definitions for entirely fictional idioms. Users have found they could type nonsensical phrases into Google paired with “meaning” to receive fabricated but very confident explanations. Even though Google labels AI Overviews as experimental, this behavior raises significant concerns about trust and accuracy in Google’s search results. AI is already everywhere, but companies aren’t stopping from adding it
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The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives A female bonobo at Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lukas Bierhoff, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought. Human language, often described as the ha
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The rumors turned out to be correct, even if most were styling it with a capital E rather than a lower-case one: the iPhone SE 4 is officially named the iPhone 16e. One question is what the e stands for. Apple has often been vague about the meaning of suffices like S, R, and SE when appended to various iPhone models, but it did provide an answer this time … Majin Bu was correct Leaker Majin Bu was first to suggest the new name, at the beginning of January, and was correct with all the details
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