I don't really want "AI" in my search results. What I actually want are search results that accurately correspond to my queries. So far the "AI" tech companies have been showing off tends to do a lot of fabulation; that doesn't bode well for good search results.

https://www.engadget.com/google-is-reportedly-developing-a-new-ai-powered-search-engine-191648736.html

Engadget is part of the Yahoo family of brands

@scalzi AI is the buzzword but all it is is really a bunch of algorithms. Algorithms have gotten us search results for decades. If it helps return what I actually asked for rather than someone gaming the SEO, I'm for it.
@boterbug @scalzi I’d agree with you on the results. But AI is not a bunch of algorithms. It is a single algorithm, pattern matching, that is notoriously difficult to decode. It works, but it is t easy to understand how it gets from input to output without hand waving, a miracle happens here, type verbiage. The best you can get is a series of statistical probabilities, but not all neural networks can have those pulled out.