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.”

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There appear to be some valid use cases outside of creating spam and plagiarizing other people’s work

    Like translation, which has already taken money out of the pockets of 40% of translators?

    + customer service, incl. sources

    November 2022: ChatGPT is released

    April 2024 survey: 40% of translators have lost income to generative AI - The Guardian

    Also of note from the podcast Hard Fork:

    There’s a client you would fire… if copywriting jobs weren’t harder to come by these days as well.

    Customer service impact, last October:

    And this past February - potential 700 employee impact at a single company:

    If you’re technical, the tech isn’t as interesting [yet]:

    Overall, costs down, capabilities up (neat demos):

    Hope everyone reading this keeps up their skillsets and fights for Universal Basic Income for the rest of humanity :)