Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

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.”

    • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Huh. That made me stop and realize how long I’ve been around. Wikipedia still feels like a new addition to society to me, even though I’ve been using it for around 20 years now.

      And what you said, is something I’ve cautioned my daughter about, and first said that to her about ten years ago.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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      7 months ago

      How a non-profit site that is constantly maintained and requires cited sources was vilified for being able to be defaced for 5 minu-

      Oh wait, that was probably an astroturfing campaing by for profit companies.