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.”

  • @HubiEnglish
    144•7 months ago

    The solution to the problem is to just pull the plug on the AI search bullshit until it is actually helpful.

    • @[email protected]English
      46•7 months ago

      Absolutely this. Microsoft is going headlong into the AI abyss. Google should be the company that calls it out and says “No, we value the correctness of our search results too much”.

      It would obviously be a bullshit statement at this point after a decade of adverts corrupting their value, but that’s what they should be about.

      • JoJoEnglish
        26•7 months ago

        Don’t count on it, the head of search does not care for anything but profit, it was the same guy who drove yahoo into the ground

        • beanEnglish
          8•7 months ago

          He’s done a great job nosediving Google too. I have relied on them in the past but they stopped being competitive or improving. Search results, literally their origin… Is so shit now. I’ve moved to other tools. I pulled the plug on we hosting after they neutered ‘unlimited’ storage, even if I was in the percent which probably used the least storage. I just liked having the option. You can’t call them on the phone. They don’t protect email privacy. Their translate used to be my go to also. It’s not improved in years despite people crowdsourcing improved translation. It’s just a pile of enshittified crap. Worse than it was before.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•7 months ago

      I disagree. I think we program the AI to reprogram itself, so it can solve the problem itself. Then we put it in charge of our vital military systems. We’ve gotta give it a catchy name. Maybe something like “Spreading Knowledge Yonder Neural Enhancement Technology”, but that’s a bit of a mouthful, so just SKYNET for short.

    • @A_Very_Big_FanEnglish
      3•7 months ago

      Honestly, they could probably solve the majority of it by blacklisting Reddit from fulfilling the queries.

      But I heard they paid for that data so I guess we’re stuck with it for the foreseeable future.