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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.”
Right? It would be so easy to make this an experiment that’s available, instead of shoving it down everyone’s throats. We could all laugh at the cute fuckups of a vaguely brain-like network that’s been dunked in raw internet. We’d also appreciate the times where it does something cool. We’d go ‘oh that’s why they’re funding this weird new technology,’ instead of ‘wow that’s almost as good as five years ago, before you ruined your central product to hyperfixate on some bullshit metric.’