On Friday afternoon, Twitter decided to block unregistered, signed-out users, from seeing public tweets. That meant that for Google’s normal crawling purposes, it was unable to see some of these tweets. It seems that Google now has about 52% fewer Twitter URLs in its index today than it had on Friday, just a few days…
Computer programs called large language models provide software with novel options for analyzing and creating text. It is not uncommon for large language models to be trained using petabytes or more of text data, making them tens of terabytes in size. A model’s parameters are the components learned from previous training data and, in essence,…
With the rise of large language models (LLMs), mass-produced AI content is becoming more prevalent and the risk of incorrect information spreading also grows. Thus, it is increasingly important for search engines and answer machines to identify trustworthy and authoritative sources and weed out all others. This recent evolution in SEO requires new tasks, skills…
Stability AI is a startup in the field of artificial intelligence best known for its Stable Diffusion image-generating AI technology. Today it has introduced a new free and open-source language model called StableLM. The model is offered in three different parameter sizes for the Alpha phase: three billion, seven billion, fifteen billion, and sixty-five billion….
On Saturday morning many of us were surprised to see that Universal Analytics 3, Google Analytics (not GA4) still showed to be collecting data, after the deadline. Well, Google said it takes time for sites to be shut down and it will happen, even though many sites are still collecting data. Google posted on Twitter…
Recently, huge language models have shown impressive generative skills, allowing them to handle a wide variety of problems. Typically, “prompting” is used to condition generation, either with task instructions and context or with a small number of samples. However, problems, including hallucination, deterioration, and wandering, have been observed in language generation, especially with smaller models….
Did you know that the new Google Search Generative Experience that launched to us a month ago shows nearby stores that have products in stock directly in the generative AI answer. This might not be new, but based on my early tests, I don’t believe I’ve seen Google SGE show “Stores,” and I definitely didn’t…
Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, scientists would like to experimentally test each of these compounds against all possible targets, but doing that kind of screen is prohibitively time-consuming. In recent years, researchers have begun using computational methods to screen…
If I had to sum up this month, I’d call it the month of way too many unconfirmed Google search ranking updates. I wrote about five of these, but it felt like there were even more. Google pushed a quality update for its Search Generative Experience. Google dropped a ton of SEO topics and finally…
Recent developments have seen a remarkable increase in the capability of large language models (LLMs), with generative pretrained transformer (GPT) models showing significant promise. The transition from GPT-3 to GPT-4, as well as the appearance of other LLMs like PaLM and LLaMA, demonstrated a considerable improvement in problem-solving and natural language understanding skills. Additionally, generative…
