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CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

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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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[-] red@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The truth is, this is the perfect type of a comment that makes an LLM hallucinate. Sounds right, very confident, but completely full of bullshit. You can't just throw money on every problem and get it solved fast. This is an inheret flaw that can only be solved by something else than a LLM and prompt voodoo.

They will always spout nonsense. No way around it, for now. A probabilistic neural network has zero, will always have zero, and cannot have anything but zero concept of fact - only stastisically probable result for a given prompt.

It's a politician.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago

They will always

for now.

[-] red@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No. another type of ML algorithm could, but not an LLM. They do not work like that.

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