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Internet Marketing Consultant and SEO Pioneer
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(That ALT text really misses the point on every possible level)
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The fundamentals are exactly that - the solid foundation on which ANYTHING else really needs to be built. That said, I know we are both strong believers in testing too. Always be learning and looking for 'new' fundamentals.
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It's funny how their blinkered, deliberate selective blindness works. Copyright is a part of Intellectual Property Law, right alongside its twin sibling- Trademarks. If original thought can't be 'owned' (and licensed), then that includes thinking up a name and logo and 'owning' that.
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Really? Can be great for steaks, or dealing with unsolicited Linkedin 'offer' makers... www.amazon.co.uk/Jaccard-45-K...
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You need a Leclerc, of course, a proper Frog Tank... 🤡
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Not if you keep them in a tank...
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"Wizard of Earthsea" was one of the first 'grown-up' books I read as a boy. My mother had peculiar bookshelves - half filled with wondrous sci-fi/fantasy, and the other half with trashy Mills & Boon romance novels. Thankfully the sci-fi/fantasy half opened a life-long fascination.
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'Pale Rider' is a much under-rated movie that I consider the spiritual successor, and improved variation, on the theme of "High Plains Drifter". It's 'Hollywood-ized' by comparison, but also slicker, clearer... A good movie.
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I preferred the older, wiser, less LSD-inspired version of 'Pale Rider'. 🤷
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Absolutely agree on the basic premise. In fact, I've often said the same to a lesser degree about WordPress where so many get so caught up in the ease, the convenience, all the easy plugins. A huge amount of the worst content online comes from the idea that everyone NEEDS to blog.
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It was named for what Altman hopes to have a grip on you by...
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For non-Scots, Scottish 'KFC' is Kintyre Fried Cormorant 🤪
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Mate, there are important differences between a mine and a basement flat in Glasgow. For one, miners don't deep fry the canary. 🤡
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Brushing up on his Spanish isn't a euphemism for frottage with the housekeeper. 🤡
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I know it well, but always preferred "I'm Gonna Be". Perhaps because there's a lot more chance of walking 500 miles than of experiencing actual sunshine in Leith... 🤡
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"Connecting with real folk" is just your code-phrase for you listening to The Proclaimers all day again, admit it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ9u...
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Yeah, like you know any real folk! 🤡
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Dollars aren't the only measure of efficiency. Think of the time saved when they used to have 'spontaneous unscheduled disassembly' much later, after launch. This new move saves so much time!
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For me, search was always just a specific application of 'probability math', and Generative AI is also just a specific application of 'probability math'. To that extent then, from that abstract, I see less change than perhaps others do.
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The biggest real difference is that the 'black box' encompasses more - e.g. the massive effect of an undisclosed 'training data-set' and the inherent biases this can give an AI with literally no oversight for fairness (or even legality) right now.
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I think of it as simply a level of abstraction, of distancing, of the search process - but the process itself is still there, behind the scenes, and we still have the ability to analyse how those signals are built, and ways in which we might most efficiently influence them.
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Maybe we're missing each other's perspectives? For me, there's still a relevancy algorithm, it is just that instead of it being wrapped as a search engine, it is within the processes of the AI. It is still 'searching' its database for relevancy and outputting results. It's "I'm feeling lucky" plus.
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However, the more truthful is that Marketing is involved in hiring the SEO, or doing the deal with a specific agent producer to be a preferred supplier, etc. As ever in SEO, the more things change, the more they really stay the same. New names, but same old processes under it all.
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In this light, it would be _closer_ to true to say that Marketing, human persuasion, has decreased in value where that human may be cut out of the decision making and purchasing process. SEO, by contrast, become proportionately MORE important.
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It is still about algorithms. At the end of the day, a computer system is tasked with ranking relevancy, and the job of SEO is to ensure that goes well for the site/client. It really doesn't matter what the algorithms are named, only that we understand they are systems and algorithms.
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Well, to be fair, Altman could probably be replaced by an AI right now with the world no worse off...
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5. If most content online is 'garbage' as you posit, isn't every single AI currently hoovering all that garbage up essentially locked into GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) consequences?
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4. Aren't the absolute largest flaws in most current [Large-X-Model] AIs in their actual ability in logic, reasoning, and judgement? Won't that be an obvious major problem in them ever becoming 'arbiters of truth'?
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3. Does any AI really *know* anything? Current AI doesn't have 'knowledge' it has data, which it mostly tries to synthesize into common data points, and often conflates wrongly. Can that ever become 'knowledge' and if so, when and how? Even the far simpler KG has limitations and errors.
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2. When you 'sum' knowledge, aren't you adding the negative knowledge into that overall sum? - i.e. putting glue on pizza arises from 'summing' human knowledge and lack of knowledge.
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I have many questions:
1. Is the 'sum total of human knowledge' predominently defined by the research and publication done by those human experts? The one's AI is disincentivizing, defunding, or forcing to paywall content lest by becoming AI it becomes 'general knowledge' defeating all IP rights?
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We started with Dan's USB desktop fan, now we're at his video titled "Six incher blows on my face at my office desk"...
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I'm pretty sure most people don't announce the cessation, or resumption, of fan-service, mate... 🤡
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Surely the correct medical treatment for Starkey-Cock is a fabric dressing...
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Makes you realise how lucky you are to have been double-barreled with the Starkey family name, and not a Cock-Hoare eh? 🤡
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My bet is that it is about MS Office. OpenAI don't just want to be integrated into the MS tools, but to have an assistant that can make the traditional office suite redundant/obsolete. Naturally MS won't even consider that.
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It seems more as if they are upset that MS *won't let* them launch rival/conflicting products rather than tensions from doing so. Not unexpected - OpenAI are the pushy, impatient brats of the tech world, rebelling at the idea that "He who pays the piper calls the tune".
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He's no princess, but
Damn! Sellin' Dis Dress!
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The 90s involved a whole different set of pill-boxes... Mostly E's 🤡
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Assembly is still a powerful and useful language, and an essential for hardcore hackers. It's that it is a low-level language, the closest thing to direct input, so executes faster than software written in higher-level languages that have to be 'decoded' into instructions.
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With the sheer amount of personal data that any smartphone can and will gather, the ONLY surprise is that Trump understood someone explaining how much power it gives to own a smartphone maker. That said, Trump probably outsourced it and is giving China all that data... 🤣
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I have one too, and concur with the wisdom.
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Nor, it turns out, do crowds of Americans. 🤣
His people had apparently predicted/anticipated 200k attendees and managed 10k. Meanwhile, the turnout for the many No Kings protest rallies around the country seem to have far exceeded 5 million... Perhaps there IS justice...
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It is 15x the turnout for Trump's little Dictator Parade... Literally 15 times.
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The truly crazy thing is that THIS would have been more impressive (and far more attended) than the actual 'parade'.