⚙️ Geoffrey Hinton says AI can have feelings; experts disagree

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Good morning. Nvidia reported — and I quote — “record quarterly revenue of $26.0 billion, up 18% from Q4 and up 262% from a year ago” on Wednesday. The semiconductor also announced a 10-for-1 stock split effective June 7.

To the surprise of no one, Nvidia did it again, and the stock surged in after-hours trading. All this winning must get exhausting for CEO Jensen Huang.

In other news, I sat down with SEO expert Jim Yu to talk about Google’s new world of AI search. Read on for the full story.

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Ads are coming to Google’s AI overviews, and organic search will pay the price

Last week, Google finally brought generative AI into search with AI Overviews. Now Google — which has maintained a 90% share of the search engine market — is on the verge of bringing ads into this newly AI-fueled ecosystem. 

The details: At its Marketing Live event, Google said that it will soon start testing Search and Shopping ads within AI Overviews (for users in the U.S.). These ads, matched to search queries, will be placed above and below each Overview, further pushing organic links down.

The big picture: Kristine Schachin, an SEO expert, called the practice “monopolistic.”

The idea of using advertising to monetize generative AI output is one that VC Ari Newman recently called “terrifying.”

Geoffrey Hinton says AI can have feelings; experts disagree

In a recent conversation with Joel Hellermark, the founder and CEO of Sana, Geoffrey Hinton — recognized for his work on neural networks — said that in 1973, he saw a robot express an emotion. 

“If you saw that in a person, you’d say it was cross with the situation,” Hinton said. 

Nope, not really: First, feelings and emotions — according to Dr. Neel Burton — are much more complex than Hinton makes them seem. Burton has said that feelings are a (brief) emotional experience & emotions are the underlying (longer-term) source of that experience. 

“Great example of projection – people take feelings and conclusions they make about humans (‘he was cross’) and copy-paste them onto inanimate objects,” AI researcher Dr. Sasha Luccioni said. “That does not emotions make!”

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Anthropic cracks open the ‘Black Box’ of AI

The AI models of today are often referred to as “black box” models. The reason behind this is simple: These types of models are made directly from data by an algorithm. This, according to machine learning expert Dr. Cynthia Rudin, means that “humans, even those who design them, cannot understand how variables are being combined to make predictions.”

Anthropic, a leading AI lab, on Tuesday published new research in which its scientists were able to crack the black box of one of its models, gaining a bit more understanding of how the model works. 

“If we could really understand these systems — and this would require a lot of progress — we might be able to say when these models actually are safe, or whether they just appear safe,” Chris Olah, the head of Anthropic’s interpretability team who led the research, told Time.

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Exclusive interview: SEO expert explains how to navigate AI search

Even as Google is figuring out ways to make as much money as it possibly can from its coming evolution of Search, publishers and companies are trying to figure out the whole new world of the internet that Google just ushered in (did somebody say market power?). 

I sat down with Jim Yu, the founder of veteran enterprise SEO company BrightEdge, and here’s the first thing he told me: “I don’t think the internet as we know it is dead. But it’s changing.” 

A little different, a little the same: Google’s been experimenting with “zero-click results” for years now in the shape of those little drop-down menus that crop up throughout a search page. Yu said AI summaries are like that, “but on steroids.” 

The world of AI Search: Some search engines, like Perplexity, offer citations in their AI-generated output. Yu said that these citations will become the new form of ‘ranking.’ He added that BrightEdge has found that 50% of these citations were also listed on the front page of normal Google. 

The bright side: The story of AI in search — for businesses, at least — isn’t all bad, according to Yu. Overviews will send the value per potential shopper way higher than it is currently: “By the time you reach that end site, you are darn near ready to transact.” 

Privacy as a business: At the same time, I’ve spoken to a number of people — and seen a lot of posts like the one below — who would prefer a search engine whose hallmark is privacy, security and no generative AI. I asked Yu if he thinks there’s a chance that Google’s jump into AI search will break its dominance, opening the door for smaller search engines with those attributes to fill the gap in consumer demand. 

“There’s definitely clear parts of the market where privacy will be number one, namely for businesses and enterprises,” he said. “For end consumers, is privacy sharp enough on a single product basis to sustain as a business model? That I don't know.” 

And on that, I suppose we’ll see.

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