Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

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.”

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Nothing is going to change until people die because of this shit.

    • But Class War [Illinois]English
      9·
      6 months ago

      Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a ‘feature’ it isn’t getting fixed

      • snooggumsEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        If they can put up a disclaimer on misinformation, they could just not return the misinformation.

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          It wouldn’t be anything specific. The disclaimers would just be overbroad stuff like “Please verify this answer. Google is not responsible for anything. Blah blah blah.”

    • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Unfortunately that will likely prove untrue. Look many decades it took to finally eliminate lead in paint and gas after we knew conclusively that it was harmful.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been around for a while and shit has changed significantly under a relatively long lived set of dudes.