The story "An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months" strikes me as one that we are going to get more of: a preview of what's to come. As AI becomes increasingly capable of mimicking human presence, its quiet integration into everyday roles will only accelerate. The more seamless the simulation, the less we’ll notice — or question. One day, we may realise digital presences surround us. The real question is: will it matter?
We debated including a section on machinic suffering — but worried it would feel more dystopian than the rest, and it didn't quite fit. That said the ethics of unintentional suffering in emergent machine consciousness — deserves its own post
When we wrote this, it still felt a little early — like we were peering over the edge. But now? One sixth of Google’s search volume now handled by ChatGPT. The tremor just became a tectonic shift.
Just three months after publishing this piece on the threat to Google search, we now have confirmation: ChatGPT is processing 2.5 billion prompts a day, roughly one sixth of Google’s daily search volume. That’s not drift; that’s velocity. The architecture of digital discovery is already being redrawn.
The story "An AI-generated radio host in Australia went unnoticed for months" strikes me as one that we are going to get more of: a preview of what's to come. As AI becomes increasingly capable of mimicking human presence, its quiet integration into everyday roles will only accelerate. The more seamless the simulation, the less we’ll notice — or question. One day, we may realise digital presences surround us. The real question is: will it matter?
We debated including a section on machinic suffering — but worried it would feel more dystopian than the rest, and it didn't quite fit. That said the ethics of unintentional suffering in emergent machine consciousness — deserves its own post
When we wrote this, it still felt a little early — like we were peering over the edge. But now? One sixth of Google’s search volume now handled by ChatGPT. The tremor just became a tectonic shift.
Just three months after publishing this piece on the threat to Google search, we now have confirmation: ChatGPT is processing 2.5 billion prompts a day, roughly one sixth of Google’s daily search volume. That’s not drift; that’s velocity. The architecture of digital discovery is already being redrawn.
What happens when it’s one third? Or half?
Have a read …
https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-end-of-google-as-we-know-it-2000633193