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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)

Well, according to an interview at The Vergewith Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these "hallucinations" are an "inherent feature" of AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem."

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[–] kwebb990@lemmy.world 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)

and our parents told us Wikipedia couldn't be trusted....

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Huh. That made me stop and realize how long I've been around. Wikipedia still feels like a new addition to society to me, even though I've been using it for around 20 years now.

And what you said, is something I've cautioned my daughter about, and first said that to her about ten years ago.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 5 months ago

How a non-profit site that is constantly maintained and requires cited sources was vilified for being able to be defaced for 5 minu-

Oh wait, that was probably an astroturfing campaing by for profit companies.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Conservapedia to the rescue.