With all the hype around ChatGPT, now is a good time to finally read this paper from March 2022 by Shah & Bender:
Situating Search (Shah & Bender, 2022): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
For a lay introduction to those ideas, see these press articles (directly recommended by Emily Bender):
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/29/1048439/chatbots-replace-search-engine-terrible-idea
- https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/03/14/qa-preserving-context-and-user-intent-in-the-future-of-web-search
Also, see this Twitter thread by Delip Rao: https://twitter.com/deliprao/status/1599098378172104704
Might be good to check too… an interview with Emily Bender on the problem with overestimating AI: https://pnw.ai/article/the-problem-with-overestimating-ai/121722775
Video series with Bender and Hanna talking about AI: https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/4gykGcMrmHHs7bG2Y6qK9W
ChatGPT is not the new Google we want for
Don’t forget that Google Search is not a search engine by design. It lives to display ads; its content recommendation system is the honeypot.