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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Nothing is going to change until people die because of this shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately that will likely prove untrue. Look many decades it took to finally eliminate lead in paint and gas after we knew conclusively that it was harmful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a 'feature' it isn't getting fixed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If they can put up a disclaimer on misinformation, they could just not return the misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It wouldn't be anything specific. The disclaimers would just be overbroad stuff like "Please verify this answer. Google is not responsible for anything. Blah blah blah."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I've been around for a while and shit has changed significantly under a relatively long lived set of dudes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

And to show everyone how sorry they are... free Google AI services for a year when you digitally sign this unrelated document.