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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.

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Google Admits Its AI Search Feature Is a Dumpster Fire, Says It Will Scale Back the Tool (futurism.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As a result, Google announced that it will limit some responses, especially when it detects "nonsensical queries that shouldn't show an AI Overview."

Google maintains that generative AI makes sense as part of its flagship feature — but given the dumpster fire its latest tool is already turning out to be, it still has a lot to prove.

"At the scale of the web, with billions of queries coming in every day, there are bound to be some oddities and errors," Google search head Liz Reid wrote in the blog post.

"We’ll keep improving when and how we show AI Overviews and strengthening our protections, including for edge cases, and we’re very grateful for the ongoing feedback."

Some of the observed issues have since been traced back to insincere "shitposts" of Reddit users, suggesting AI Overviews is drawing from some seriously dubious data for its output.

We've already seen chatbots and related tools telling users to cheat on their wives, hallucinate plenty of information, miserably fail to summarize existing data, and make a complete mess of entire publications.

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