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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] 78 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Here's a solution: don't make AI provide the results. Let humans answer each other's questions like in the good old days.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Whatever happened to Jeeves? He seemed like a good guy. He probably burned out.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can find him walking Lycos around Geocities picking up it's poop in little green plastic bags.

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

Is that the city over by Angelfire?

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

Saddened to see Angelfire being overrun by Neopets.

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

They stuck him in a glass case in a museum.

https://images.app.goo.gl/avkBQWqoWMG5jFi36

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Locked: duplicate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is locked?

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

Theyre making a reference to stackoverflow.com, a website for IT/programming related questions. On that site moderators will typically lock (prevent updates on) new posts as they appear to be duplicates of existing questions/posts.

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

Note, they're more motivated to lock posts than actually help users. It's a very VERY unfriendly space for anyone who isn't an expert.