Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed.
Mustafa Suleyman, the British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind, said: “The business model that Google had broke the internet.”
He said search results had become plagued with “clickbait” to keep people “addicted and absorbed on the page as long as possible”.
Information online is “buried at the bottom of a lot of verbiage and guff”, Mr Suleyman argued, so websites can “sell more adverts”, fuelled by Google’s technology.
This is what we call “Technikgläubigkeit” in German. Basically religious faith in technology.
AI has always exhibited the problem that you can do simple things unreliably very quickly, but getting this to a point where it can do complex things reliably is a huge hurdle that sometimes can’t be overcome at all.