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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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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You mean that "AI" isn't actually intelligent at all? It just averages over stolen content whether it's correct or a joke? Wow I'm shocked.

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[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

He's such a damn clown.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If I was in charge, Gemini would be immediately tabled.

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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

So the next captcha will be a list of AI-generated statements and you have to decide which are bat shit crazy?

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Heres one: SCRAP IT

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's quite simple. Garbage in, garbage out. Data they use for training needs to be curated. How to curate the entire internet, I have no clue.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The real answer would be "don't". Have a decent whitelist dor training data with reliable data. Don't just add every orifice of the internet (like reddit) to the training data. Limitations would be good in this case.

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[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Nothing is going to change until people die because of this shit.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

And to show everyone how sorry they are... free Google AI services for a year when you digitally sign this unrelated document.

[–] But_Class_War@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a 'feature' it isn't getting fixed

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The "solution" is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it, and ultimately still gets accused of tailoring the results and censoring stuff.

Let's put that toy back in the toy box, and keep it at the few things it can do well instead of trying to fix every non-broken things with it.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 months ago

The "solution" is to curate things, invest massive human resources in it

Hilariously, Google actually used to do this: they had a database called the "knowledge graph" that slowly accumulated verified information and relationships between commonly-queried entities, producing an excellent corpus of reliable, easy-to-find information about a large number of common topics.

Then they decided having people curate things was too expensive and gave up on it.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've seen suggestions that the AI Overview is based on the top search results for the query, so the terrible answers may be more to do with Google Search just being bad than any issue with their AI. The AI Overview just makes things a bit worse by removing the context, so you can't see the glue on pizza suggestion was a joke on reddit or it was The Onion suggesting eating rocks.

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[–] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I just realized that Trump beat them to the punch. Injecting cleaning solution into your body sounds exactly like something the AI Overview would suggest to combat COVID.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Are they now AI, large language models or AI large language models?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

You ask a lot of questions for a bag of sentient meat.

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