Report: Google Quality Raters Shifted to Bard Chatbot Response Rating

[engine]

According to a report on Search Engine Land, Google has shifted some of its search quality raters over to Google's Bard chatbot response quality. Some are suggesting it'll affect the quality of search.

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[tangor]

Welcome to the new normal...

[Bewenched]

And they'll claim that it is best for the users, but really it's so they don't have to pay humans anymore.
This AI stuff is going to destroy economies.

[tangor]

This AI stuff is going to destroy economies.

Perhaps, but it has to survive the smell test first (being right 99.99999% of the time, balanced, and not prone to hallucinations).

More likely, as rapidly growing as AI has become, it might just self-implode to become ridiculous. (But I'm not holding my breath on that event!)

[EditorialGuy]

This AI stuff is going to destroy economies.

In the words of Yogi Berra, "It's like déjà vu all over again."

Remember when word processors (and then computers) killed off typewriters and stenographers in a few shortyears?

Or when applications like Pagemaker and QuarkXPress put most typesetters out of business?

Economies continued to grow, and unemployment today is far less than it was a few decades ago.

[superclown2]

Apart from search (which is now under incredible pressure) Google has a history of magnificent, potentially world changing, but ultimately spectacular failures. Let's wait and see how all this turns out.

[Nutterum]

Not sure why is anyone surprised. As soon as Bing's GPT demonstrates quality answers to wider and wider public the sooner more people will realise that Google and Bing are not that far off in terms of search in general. However Bing has a fancy new toy and Google has a failure. Now, guess what is the topic in the exec meeting rooms at Google. It sure as heck isn't on the size of the 3d pool table.

[superclown2]

Since Google gave up trying to produce the best possible search results in favour of those that gave them the most money ages ago I can't see how incorporating AI into their 'search' system can benefit them anyway. It's one very expensive way of creating results against one they have been refining, and which has been extremely profitable, for over two decades; and the potential legal issues if (when) there is a major problem because of a wrong answer are incalculable. Are there no cool heads, or people able to look further than the next set of financial results, at Mountain View?

[tangor]

Are there no cool heads, or people able to look further than the next set of financial results, at Mountain View?

Nope. It is always the bux!

Follow the money and ... take all you can.