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.”

  • steventrouble@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    For posterity, not all AI is chatbots. There’s so many other types of AI beyond overhyped chatbots.*

    If we dismiss the entire field of AI, we risk overlooking some truly beautiful AI advances. Like that time DeepMind solved the protein folding problem or discovered millions of new types of crystalline materials using neural nets.

    * You probably know that, but others might not be as familiar with the space.