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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] 44 points 5 months ago (16 children)

I don't like the sound of getting on with "productive uses" either though. I hope the entire thing is a catastrophic failure.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

I hate the AI hype right now, but to say the entire thing should fail is short sighted.

Imagine people saying the following: "The internet is just hype. I get too much spam emails. I hope the entire thing is a catastrophic failure."

Imagine we just shut down the entire internet because the dotcom bubble was full of scams and overhyped....

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Honestly the internet has ruined us. Dont threaten me with a good time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The peak of computer productivity was spreadsheets and smb shares in the '90s everything else has been downhill in terms of increase of distraction and time wasting inefficiencies.