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.”

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Then it sounds like the “web” tab should be the default and the AI Overview should be the optional tab the user has to choose to go click on.

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      1 month ago

      Then how would they compete with the other big search engine pushing AI that nobody wants? /s