Well, you don't want to start the little nippers off with cheap smokes.
Posted on 05/23/2024 10:01:31 AM PDT by Reno89519
Google’s AI-generated search results are already being slammed as a “disaster” that “can no longer be trusted” — with critics citing bizarre responses that have included advising adding glue to pizza sauce and touting the health benefits of tobacco for kids.
In a controversial feature that critics say poses dire threats to traditional media outlets, Google’s chatbot auto-generates summaries for complex user queries while effectively demoting links to other websites.
Dubbed “AI Overviews,” the feature rolled out to all US users beginning last week and is expected to reach more than 1 billion users by the end of the year — despite continued flubs that have dinged the chatbot’s credibility.
One widely circulated screenshot showed Google’s AI-generated response to a search for the query “cheese not sticking to pizza.”
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...results for the search “health benefits for tobacco for tweens.”
Google’s AI responded by declaring “tobacco contains nicotine, which can cause some short-term benefits such as increased alertness, euphoria and relaxation.”
It also claims that potential uses for tobacco include “whitening teeth,” among others.
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Makes it stick to your ribs.
(Someone had to say it.)
Where’s that Dilbert strip of the Dogbert radio advice show, with a closing panel of Dogbert saying, “...and those are just some of the benefits of an all cheese diet.”
Well, you don't want to start the little nippers off with cheap smokes.
I’ve got it in my cupboard: “Non-toxic pizza glue. Just like momma used to make!”
I’m laughing. I knew people would expect AI to be a miniature human in an electronic box. It isn’t. It’s a computer program that attempts to simulate human intelligence, but fails.
It fails because human intelligence includes the sum total of human experience: a lifetime of problem solving, a lifetime of emotional responses, a lifetime of thinking, interacting, supposing, imagining, planning, worrying, enjoying, caring, loving, fighting, avoiding danger, taking risks, ... and millions more things that an electronic device with a screen cannot do or experience.
Designers have attempted to put those human experiences in the program, and have failed because it’s impossible, and WHO’S experiences are they going to put in the program? yours? mine? Suzie Smith’s?
Some of these companies are way behind in the AI game - some are playing catch up and some so rotted inside that they programmed them to spit out bullcrap. My wife asked Meta AI about the death of the Iranian President and it told her he was alive and doing fine. She then asked “didn’t his helicopter crash?” and it took a while and came back something like “I’m sorry, I only have access to information that has been previously researched. After searching your question I did find news reports his helicopter crashed”.
Some of this stuff is just crap. The best minds in AI already have great gigs. Meta is way behind and Google is just brain rot.
I keep telling my wife, whenever she makes pizza at home, to put glue on the cheese and on the sauce, to keep them from sliding off. But, she decided to use tape instead to keep them from sliding off, and that works too.
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