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.”

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It’s going to be hilarious to see these companies eventually abandon Reddit because it’s giving them awful results, and then they’re completely fucked

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      5 months ago

      You’re wrong. Anyone who has ever used Google knows Reddit is an absolute goldmine of valuable information. The problem is it’s also full of jokes and puns and bad information, and AI isn’t able to sort one from the other (yet).