How about turn it the fuck off since it sucks and eventually will kill someone.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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These models are mad libs machines. They just decide on the next word based on input and training. As such, there isn’t a solution to stopping hallucinations.
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The model literally ate The Onion, and now they can't get it to throw it back up.
I love this wording, because it’s so true
Looks like Google stopped the AI feature. No more AI suggestions at the top of the page after searching for something.
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.
It will confidently report inaccurate information. It's usually not so hilariously wrong, but it's still wrong.
For example, I was talking with someone about what constituents a "fruit" botanically, and I searched "are beans fruit", and it confidently told me that beans are not a fruit, botanically speaking, because they're a legume. It seems to have adapted, but that's a good example of a "small wrong" that's not uncommon at all.
Then fucking turn it off
This is so wild to me... as a software engineer, if my software doesn't work 100% of the time as requested in the specification, it fails tests, doesn't get released and I get told to fix all issues before going live.
AI is basically another word for unrealiable software full of bugs.
And therein lies the difference between engineers and business people. And look which ones are usually in charge.
Depends on how strict you are about the tests. Google is obviously satisfied if the first live iteration of a product doesn't kill more than 5% of the users.
I mean yeah... if he had a solution they would be actually have the revolutionary AI tool the tech writers write about.
It's kinda written like a "gotcha" but it's really the fundamental problem with AI. We call it hallucinations now but a few years ago we just called it being wrong or returning bad results.
It's like saying we have teleportation working in that we can vaporize you on the spot but are just struggling to reconstruct you elsewhere. "It's halfway there!"
Until the AI is trustworthy enough to not require fact checking it afterwards it's just a toy.
Maybe Google should put a disclaimer... warning people it's not 100% accurate. Or.. just take down the technology because clearly their AI is chit tier.
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.
Whoah, whoah, whoah. Hire people!? We’re here to take all the money. Not spend money. — Google
Sadly technology companies are going to slowly force us into using AI technology. For example, Apple's iOS update 18 will incorporate AI.
Google really thinks they have no competition. Like, fuck, even Bing improved a lot with time.
When MS was pushing the Bing challenge with TV ads, it really was quite close. I did the challenge and Google "won" (only) 3/5 of my test searches.
Of course Bing already had a hilariously incorrect "AI" interfering with the first page of results for a week or two before Google decided to further fsck up their search with LLM response generation.
I have a solution: stop using their search engine to begin with and slowly replace everything else google you use.
Wish more and more people knew about Linux phones and degoogled phones.
Just use a VPN, you will immediately stop using Google after having to identify your umpteenth fire hydrant...
Those boxes that only contain 1/2 of a motorcycle mirror or handle- do we say they contain motorcycle?
Literally doesn't matter; sometimes it's checking for indicators in your mouse movement, sometimes it's checking your cookies... It never actually cares if you've correctly identified or not.
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Are you me? I also switched after getting a VPN.