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

submitted 10 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] 1 points 1 week ago

I have a solution, don't relie on ai *for information? Wikipedia is better then Gemini for reliable answers on popular and more rare topics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The moment a politician's kid drinks bleach because of Google's AI is the moment any regulatory action is taken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Like when they got drafted to Nam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If its job is to write a fan fic on what may or may not be true on what you asked for, then it does a great job. But typically people search for information, and getting what is essentially a glorified auto complete isn't useful. It's like big tech has learned nothing about the massive issue of disinformation and just added fuel to the fire to an unsolved problem we're still very much trying to figure out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I'd have to send you back in time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no shit, that's what LLMs do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They could probably mostly or entirely fix it, but to do so they'd have to better curate search results. Because what it does is summarize the top search results for the query.

The problem they can't fix is consistently getting useful high quality search results to the top without getting misinfo, disinfo, irrelevant info, trolling, answers to similar but not identical questions or memes as high or higher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You mean hallucinations like this one?

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