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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] 34 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think we should stop calling things AI unless they actually have their own intelligence independent of human knowledge and training.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But we aren’t intelligent without human training, either…

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Never been tested due to ethical constraints

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Kind of has been, not in a scientific manner, but there's the whole phenomenon of "feral human".

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

There have been very unethical experiments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Sure, but this one hasn’t been done, and if you walk up to a researcher and ask “y no lock bby in white box” they will tell you to leave and might even call the cops if you seemed particularly determined

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are examples of children raised by other animals.

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

Not exactly a scientific setting, and you can’t rule out the effects of abuse on these children

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

Isn't there already the term AGI for that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, and the researchers I know doing stuff with AI find the idea of AGI laughable.

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

The academy has been using the term "AI" for a while now for things that are much less sophisticated than the current/popular generation of media generators. I took an "Artificial Intelligence" class as part of my undergrad around the turn of the century.

It is confusing though, since sentience and intelligence are synonyms in the right context, but no AI has shown any good evidence of being a non-human sentient being.