CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information
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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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For the down voters if you think Dr. Nym is AI... Fair enough, but I don't agree

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim

Dr. Nym explained by matt parker

It fails the turning test. Generative language models also fail the turning test. The bar for AI should be the turning test....

Sure, but the problem is that our language has evolved and "AI" no longer means what it used to.

Over a decade ago it was mostly reserved for what you're describing (which I would call "AGI" now). However, even then we did technically use "AI" for things like NPCs in video games. That kind of AI just boils down to a bunch of If-Then statements.