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.”

  • Mad_Punda.deEnglish
    51•1 month ago

    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”.

    Then what made you think it’s a good idea to include that in your product now?!

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 month ago

      It’s an extremely compelling product story full of market segmentation advertisers dream of!

    • KaryoplasmaEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      “We do AI now”. Shareholders creaming themselves, stocks going to the moon. New yacht for PichAI.

      • @kakesEnglish
        8•1 month ago

        It’s also a big driver of investment these days.

    • @[email protected]English
      -15•1 month ago

      I’d rather get an AI answer that is kinda incorrect than having to search the top 10 pages with ads and cookies buttons to get the same kinda incorrect information.

      • @GrassEnglish
        13•1 month ago

        that’s also Google’s fault though

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 month ago

          Websites just figured out how Google’s page rank works and gamed the system. I mean i feel a little bad for them but they brought this upon themselves when they monetized their product.