On Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 11:23:41 PM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 8:27:53 PM UTC-5, a a wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 December 2023 at 16:00:20 UTC+1, Fred Bloggs wrote:
> > > 'Project Green Light uses artificial intelligence to optimize and alter intersections in order to minimize vehicles’ stopping and starting. Google reported that at busy intersections in cities, pollution can be 29 times higher than it is on open roads, due to the environmental toll of cars stopping and starting again.'
> > >
> > > The system is said be 'revolutionary' with 'shocking' beneficial impact on emissions and travel times.
> > >
> > > https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/project-green-light-a-i-traffic-light-system/
> > >
> > > Out with the old, in with the new. Just something else to get the change resistors up in arms. They'll probably claim an invasion of privacy issue.
> >
> > Google is generally low-tech, low science today, claiming innovations for selfpromotion like Elon Musk .

A a does make a habit of claiming this. Anything that he doesn't understand - and he doesn't understand much - gets labelled as low tech.
> > Life is for real
> >
> > Ask Google to limit activities to manage marketing spam flooding Usenet Google Groups first.

You can ask all you like, but if google doesn't make money out of the activty you request it isn't going to happen.
> > Just ask Google why their search engine fails to find anything reasonable by key words search,
> > generating delusional search results based on
> >
> > "what you get is what was paid"

A a can't devise search strings to pull out the information he seeks, so he blames google for his own inadequacy.

> All the search engines are using AI -assist these days. Follow your query with a '?' to pull it up. The unfortunate part is the AI is just a dummy regurgitating results of its search on the topic and apparently doesn't vet anything. Not a really big help.

You have tailor the search string to get the kind of results you are looking for - in effect guess the form of words that would used by somebody who might have written something useful on the topic. That's easier when you already know quite bit about the topic. A a doesn't seem to know much about anything and Fred Bloggs frequnen tly doesn't know as much as he ought to.
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> Google has overextended its internet presence, and can't handle it.

They can't do everything, but they seem to be capable of directing the effort they've got to into areas that make money for them. You can only afford so much effort, and the art is to concentrate that where it makes you most money.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney