{"id":217069,"date":"2026-05-19T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:30:27","slug":"theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/26\/05\/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going\">There\u2019s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/26\/05\/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going\">https:\/\/kottke.org\/26\/05\/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 17:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"kottke.org\">kottke.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a respectful and informative summary of the provided article using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Steven Rosenbaum&#8217;s Book &#8220;The Future of Truth&#8221;<\/strong>: The author admitted to including several quotes in his book that were either made up or misattributed by A.I. He acknowledged the inclusion of synthetic quotes and has initiated an internal investigation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Olga Tokarczuk&#8217;s Use of AI in Writing<\/strong>: Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk shared in an interview her experience using A.I tools for inspiration in her creative writing, particularly valuing its benefits for literary fiction despite acknowledging its limitations in certain areas.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Google\u2019s Overhaul of Search<\/strong>: At the Google I\/O conference, Google announced a significant transformation for its search function, promising a new interactive experience and the introduction of &#8220;information agents&#8221; along with personalized mini apps, marking a departure from the traditional link-based format.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rise of Gemini Across Google Apps<\/strong>: Gemini, Google\u2019s AI assistant, has rapidly expanded across various Google services like email and documents, leading some users to express frustration with its pervasiveness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Commencement Speakers Facing Backlash<\/strong>: At recent graduation ceremonies, speakers who portrayed AI in a positive manner faced boos from some attendees, hinting at the ongoing public discourse about the role and impact of A.I. in society.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summary highlights the key developments in the realm of artificial intelligence as detailed in the article, without drawing from specific copyrighted material beyond what&#8217;s permissible.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going\u2026 https:\/\/kottke.org\/26\/05\/theres-no-earthly-way-of-knowing-which-direction-we-are-going Publish Date: 2026-05-19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/kottke.org\/plus\/misc\/images\/editor-1779225185-1e599bef.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217071,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217069\/revisions\/217071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}