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Screencap from linked article: In 2003, Google launched Google Alerts, a change-detection service that emailed users when new web results matched their search terms. The web was smaller and more manageable then, of course, so this became a part of many information workers’ toolsets. (That service still exists in some form, but is no longer the way most web users go about aquiring new information.) Information-gathering agents are an evolution of Google Alerts. Beyond spotting changes, they can make sense of them, too.

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Screencap from linked article: In 2003, Google launched Google Alerts, a change-detection service that emailed users when new web results matched their search terms. The web was smaller and more manageable then, of course, so this became a part of many information workers’ toolsets. (That service still exists in some form, but is no longer the way most web users go about aquiring new information.) Information-gathering agents are an evolution of Google Alerts. Beyond spotting changes, they can make sense of them, too.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 01:11:14 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
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Spot the magical thinking here. No, the "AI" isn't making sense of anything. It's making papier-mache of the input, and preventing the use from doing the sense-making.
Also, is that the Pokemon sense of "evolution"?
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