Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch says he told company teams to plan their businesses as if search traffic were zero. Lynch made the comments in an interview on TBPN, a tech talk show OpenAI acquired in April. He described three consecutive years in which internal budget forecasts underestimated actual declines in search traffic. Lynch said: […]
Google Research’s ALDRIFT: AI Answers That Do More Than Sound Plausible
Google Research published a paper that studies how to make generative AI systems produce answers that do more than sound plausible. The researchers say that their ALDRIFT framework “opens exciting avenues” for moving beyond answers that merely have a high probability. The paper, titled “Sample-Efficient Optimization over Generative Priors via Coarse Learnability,” examines a problem […]