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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If you train your AI to sound right, your AI will excel at sounding right. The primary goal of LLMs is to sound right, not to be correct.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Yes, LLMs today are the ultimate "confidently incorrect" type of behavior.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

And really, the Google one in search has a primary goal of summarizing high ranking search results into a natural language statement that sounds like it knows what it's talking about. So if you have a search where high ranking results are wrong/memes...