alt Hacker NewsGoogle's AI Mode = ELIZA 2026.
It's not a person, not even close to one in most ways, but it wants to pass itself off as one.
Here'a a clue Google: If I want an LLM response, I'll go to gemini.google.com, but if I go to google.com I'm hoping for a search result.
ELIZA = shitty 1966 chatbot, a couple hundred lines of code, that tried to pass itself off as a psychiatrist.
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if you just add &udm=14 to your query url (set in browser etc.)
you will not get "AI" results
&udm=14
> Here'a a clue Google: If I want an LLM response, I'll go to gemini.google.com, but if I go to google.com I'm hoping for a search result.
Google is not interested in what you want, because it cannot get you to buy that. It is interested in what it wants you to want - fake AI - because it hopes it can get you to buy that.
> ELIZA = shitty 1966 chatbot, a couple hundred lines of code
Interestingly the current "AI" is no more intelligent - just a hell of a lot more convincing.
Cmon, you're being too harsh.. ELIZA was a such a fun chatbot to chat with.. I was blown away the first time I tried it in 2000s :)