The New York Times: Google appears to have rolled back its new AI Overviews — a generative AI feature — after the technology produced a litany of untruths and errors, including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and suggesting that people ingest rocks for nutrients.

Google appears to have rolled back its new AI Overviews — a generative AI feature — after the technology produced a litany of untruths and errors, including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and suggesting that people ingest rocks for nutrients.

Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flawswww.nytimes.com Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.

lol

And told me I was overwatering my cat! bsky.app/profile/eliz...

Watson's been developing these liver-spot-like slightly darker patches in his ears lately right before his front teeth fell out. He's going to the vet tomorrow, but I googled in the meantime & welp, I see the AI rollout's going smoothly

Oh no my cat doesn’t have any leaves at all! Should I take him to the vet?!

You can see right there how it's taking words that were next to other in sentences that explained things like the words that were next to each in your question. It doesn't understand what any of those words mean. How did anyone ever think this would work? And I hope your cat is doing well!

I hope your cat is doing well!

Two weeks ago they were "changing the way we search" and now... whatever

They did! For two weeks we had to scroll past annoying AI answers to see their already-shitty results.

It's true! They managed to remove more people from their service. That is truly a hard goal to reach!

Cool. Imagine a world where the worst dipshits don’t run everything

unfortunately the worst dipshits also run the nyt

Literally all they had to do was test it using normal people and spared themselves the embarrassment

Yeah those were really tame questions. It wasn’t even “make SpongeBob do 9-11” level deranged

Goog: Looks like the product is complaining again

Guess I'll look in the Fiction/ Fantasy section

The 90s? No… Shit, I’m out of ideas.

Don't dismiss AI. It still has lots of applications: spam generation, bad art, fake high school and college essays . . .

tricking people into eating rocks

AI: OVER

🙏🙏🙏

"works to minimise errors" It cannot be fixed. You could have that easy scoop if you just lifted the phone to talk to an expert.

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I wrote about supervised vs. unsupervised learning, why the latter is so important for LLMs, and how trying to get google's ai thing to not spew nonsense runs head on into deeply thorny complexities of the former. buttondown.email/apperceptive...

Supervision and truthbuttondown.email A diagram I found online about distinguishing facts and value judgments. Seems easy enough! For more than a decade the dominant training methodology in...

@katienotopoulos.bsky.social you’re gonna be in history books and it’s gonna be funny as fuck

I should ask for a consulting fee. bsky.app/profile/davs...

No solution? How about turning it off? futurism.com/the-byte/ceo...

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Informationfuturism.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.

21st Century New Coke. Google Executives must be so proud of themselves.

New coke was actually very successful - they were able to change to corn syrup, and people got interested in _buying_ Coke, when Coke had been losing to Pepsi. The New Coke product was panned, but the whole situation overall was a big win for Coke. I really hope this doesn't play out similarly.

Thanks for the info. I was not aware.

Didn't mean to "um, actually" you or undercut your point (that I agree with).

No worries! 😀

everyone here is just so nice, I love it ❤️

GOOD. This was a stupid decision in the first place. Just give me my search results, don't try to paraphrase the internet.

If you're going to link to an article to make a point, courtesy dictates that the link goes to the actual article - not a paywall. If you're just in here to beg for subscriptions, be honest about it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Thanks for this post!

Dismissed with the same lukewarm attention as the drunk guy no one invited to the party, no one liked, and everyone ignored bailing with an exaggerated, "This is lame, I'm out."

But how many rocks are we supposed to eat NOW?!

Lol

You laugh? A hundred Billionaire are losing money and you laugh?

fuck gotta let my dog out of the car

“It’s fuckin EMBARRASSING!” - Letterkenny’s hockey coach

How are ya’ now?

Good n you?

“You’re rolling back your tragic AI feature one day…” (Google has 182,502 employees, these are their problems)

We should bully more people.

I don’t think anyone had used Elon Musk as a verb, but Google was Elon Musking their search engine just to impress their investors.

Seems pretty obvious the problem is "garbage in, garbage out." When their AI is scraping up a shit ton of misinformation, propaganda, and clickbait websites.

I just made glue and rocks dietary mainstays. Acquired tastes, but you get used to it. Everyone else just needs to learn to adapt to the proclamations of our new AI overlords.

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