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Google has launched an experimental Windows desktop app via Search Labs that offers a Spotlight-like search experience, allowing users to quickly find files, apps, and web results using a shortcut, with integrated Google Lens and AI features for enhanced search capabilities.
Google's AI search tool mistakenly advised users to "eat rocks" for their health, highlighting potential issues with AI-generated information.
Google is introducing generative AI to Google Maps, allowing users to ask for recommendations using large language models to analyze information about over 250 million places. The feature will first be available in the US and will provide personalized suggestions for activities like thrifting based on user queries. Initially, only the Local Guides community will have access to this feature, with plans to open it up to other users later. This move reflects Google's efforts to transform Maps into a search tool for discovering new places, leveraging generative AI to enhance the user experience.
The Washington Post has created a search tool that allows users to find out if their website or content was used to train AI systems as part of Google's C4 dataset, which includes websites and content creators that generative AI could potentially negatively impact. The C4 dataset is only part of the data used by Google Bard and other large language models, which also use Wikipedia, Reddit, and other sources. Reddit has updated its API terms and will now charge some companies, including Google and OpenAI, for access to its valuable corpus of data.