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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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."

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[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In this case, it seems pretty likely. We know Google paid Reddit to train on their data, and the result used the exact same measurement from this comment suggesting putting Elmer’s glue in the pizza:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Pizza/comments/1a19s0/my_cheese_slides_off_the_pizza_too_easily/

And their deal with Reddit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reddit-60-million-deal-ai-training/

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 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).