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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] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have a solution: stop using their search engine to begin with and slowly replace everything else google you use.

[–] Corkyskog 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just use a VPN, you will immediately stop using Google after having to identify your umpteenth fire hydrant...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those boxes that only contain 1/2 of a motorcycle mirror or handle- do we say they contain motorcycle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Literally doesn't matter; sometimes it's checking for indicators in your mouse movement, sometimes it's checking your cookies... It never actually cares if you've correctly identified or not.

[–] sloppy_diffuser 1 points 6 months ago

Might work like the book one where there is a known word and unknown word. You only have to guess the known one. The rest of the choices are used as training data for the unknowns.