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.”

  • ricecakeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It will confidently report inaccurate information. It’s usually not so hilariously wrong, but it’s still wrong.
    For example, I was talking with someone about what constituents a “fruit” botanically, and I searched “are beans fruit”, and it confidently told me that beans are not a fruit, botanically speaking, because they’re a legume. It seems to have adapted, but that’s a good example of a “small wrong” that’s not uncommon at all.