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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    5 months ago

    This is what competition is now.

    Putting out worthless things simply because everyone else is doing it.

    Hey, Google: if your big tech friends jumped off a cliff, would you join 'em?

    (Also why is the AI assistant on my phone opening up just by typing “hey Google?” 😡)