cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15864003
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.”
Yea I think you’re onto something there with the weird and toxic inertia here. Part of that, I suspect, is that the kind of work and profession that was previously doing the sorts of things that AI will be used for now, namely Data Science and similar, was already a nebulous profession already in transition, which could be simply wiped away over 2-5 years of AI hype. That is, there may literally be no “going back” because what was done before, in many cases, will have been institutionally forgotten or pushed out as a career people are willing to invest in. Which would mean, as you say, whatever persists will cling to the whole AI thing in some way however corrupted and disingenuous.