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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology
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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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[–] Badeendje 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe they will retain user interactions if the reason for the user interactions dissapears. The value of Google is they provide accurate search results.

I can understand some users just want to be spoonfed an answer. But that's not what most people expect from a search engine.

I want google to use actual AI to filter out all the nonsense sites that turn a Reddit post into an article of 500 words using an LLM without any actual value. That should be googles proposition.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 7 months ago

The value of Google is they provide accurate search results.

They offer the most accurate results of search engines you're familiar with. But in a shrinking field with degrading quality, that's a low bar and sinking quick.

I want google to use actual AI to filter out all the nonsense sites

So did the last head of Google search, until the new CEO fired him.