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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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[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks like Google stopped the AI feature. No more AI suggestions at the top of the page after searching for something.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious, are these hallucinations very prevalent? I'm outside under US so haven't seen the feature yet. But I have noticed that practically every article references the same glue incident.

So I'm not sure if the hallucinations are happening all the time, or everyone is just jumping on a handful of mistakes the AI made. If the latter, the situation reminds me of how every single accident involving a Tesla was reported on back in the day.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have a solution! Employ a human to verify the work of AI, perhaps you need more than one with all the junk AI might produce. Maybe you will even need an entire department to do that, and maybe you should just not use AI.

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[–] dog_@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I have a solution! It's called "getting rid of it" :D

[–] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it did say non toxic glue. Which is technically edible. /S

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

But this week’s debacle shows the risk that adding AI – which has a tendency to confidently state false information – could undermine Google’s reputation as the trusted source to search for information online.

🤣🤣🤣

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

You mean hallucinations like this one?

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