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Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Why does search need to be AI? I've had no problems finding any information I wanted under the former process.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But what about when you start wanting to know about life's mysteries?

Google isn't staffed by geologists; how are they to know what number of rocks you should eat each day?

Google search itself doesn't have a functioning set of human organs; without AI how would they know how much urine to drink for kidney stones?

Without AI it might've taken another century before we got spicy gasoline pasta recipe, and you think that isn't a problem?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it might've taken another century before we got spicy gasoline pasta recipe,

The Anarchists Cookbook has had the recipe for napalm for a bit now. But I do get your point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

And it works! I followed that recipe in the 80s, to hilariously non-fatal results.

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