How Are Things in the World of Artificial Intelligence?

About like you'd expect. Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony has a couple of Artificial Intelligence stories from the tech news for us. Daily News Stuff 9 May 2025: Botch Epoch Edition

We will start with the 2nd story, because it is actually more interesting. Well it is to me, anyway. Why? Because a Fool and His Money are soon parted, and people will believe anything about AI today.

Meanwhile Alibaba has release[d] new AI code that allows AI to act as a search engine without needing a search engine. (VentureBeat)

Called ZeroSearch, a 7-billion parameter version outperformed Google Search in undefined and indefensibly stupid scenarios. It's the equivalent of claiming that you managed to condense the Encyclopaedia Britannica down to a bowl of alphabet soup. I don't know what you actually did, but I know you're not worth talking to until you grow up.

Don't be foolish; don't be parted from your money.

The first story Pixy Misa covers is about Google, or Alphabet, which is facing a bunch of legal problems, including possible antitrust breakup. They want you to know how hard they are having it with the advent of AI. Don't believe a word of it, or at least take the tears with a huge grain of salt.

Who is winning the war between search engines and AI chat bots? Search engines, and it's not even close. (WCCFTech)

In fact, if you add up all the search engines and all the AI services, 90% of the activity is Google search and everything else is just noise.

The thing hurting Google, is that their search has gone from being great to sucking like Hoover. Have you tried to look up anything on the internet lately?

People are trying to sell you something, and you don't even know it. How do you feel about Google vs. AI? Is your mutual fund or IRA purchasing AI company stock?