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.”

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    In terms of language, Chatgpt is more advanced than most humans. Have you spoken to the average person lately? By average I mean worldwide average.

    It’s obviously not full human intelligence, but in terms of language it is pretty mind blowing.

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                You just inflated my initial statement by assuming I meant that Chatgpt is smarter than humans. I said that Chatgpt is more advanced than the average human at linguistics, and I stand by it. Show me where I said “Chatgpt is smarter than a human” or “this is real simulated human intelligence”. You just wanted to be angry at someone so you made your narrative in your mind.

                I even said that it doesn’t need to be real intelligence in order to be capable of having a conversation.

                You’ll probably keep creating your imaginary narrative, so there’s no point in arguing with you.

                Good bye.

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        Never understood this argument. It has nice rethorics but proves nothing. the problem with text prediction != intelligence is that we can’t even define intelligence. I hate AI as much as the next guy here, but that doesn’t mean we should do lazy assertions and quoting dumb arguments.

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          You’re not wrong that we don’t have great definitions of intelligence, but that doesn’t detract at all from criticism against these LLM’s being pushed on us and the massive amount of praise and hype being directed at what’s essentially advertising platforms.

          Never understood this argument.

          All you need to understand is that AI models are making the internet a lot worse, and it’s going to get worse and worse and people are not happy about it. The exact details and semantics about the wording is almost irrelevant in the face of our need to collectively demand better from our tech companies and not act like these LLM’s are real entities that deserve respect.

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      ChatGPT has given me verifiably false information plenty of times. It’s amazing how it’s gets things right, but also amazing how it can get basic stuff completely wrong.

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        So… Humans get basic things right all the time and never provide false information? What humans are you talking to?

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      If you think everyone around you is dumber than a text app, you might be the problem.

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        “a text app”… Sure, it is a text app. Definetely not revolutionizing the tech industry as we speak, totally irrelevant. Sure.

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          If you believe jumping on a corporate fad race bandwagon for enshittification to be “revolutionizing” I guess you’re not wrong.

          Then again you also believe that people are dumber than text predictive software… So yeah. Lmao

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            I have never said that Chatgpt is smarter than humans, I said that when it comes to linguistics, it is more advanced than the average human.

            But keep twisting my words, I don’t care. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Good bye.

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              I have never said that Chatgpt is smarter than humans, I said that when it comes to linguistics, it is more advanced than the average human.

              You’re not SAYING anything here. Are… are YOU a chat bot?

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                  "I’m Plumba, my brain is so numba I believe anything tech ads will tell me, and I’ll defend them till my dying day.

                  And or at gates give me migrates, I don’t understand how it programmates. I fail at responding to words, just like those fake AI turds, so I’ll just tell you good day sir"

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      In terms of language, Chatgpt is more advanced than most humans.

      The internet is getting flooded with content that reads like a 10th grade book report written the hour before the test. When you can give me an internet that isn’t overflowing with mindless slop that says nothing new and pictures of uncanny people smiling with too many teeth, then I might start to believe it’s better than people in some way.

      In the meantime, I would encourage everyone else to maintain and encourage human connections, hand-written material and actual human interaction. Write and draw. Don’t be lazy and let your lazy brain convince yourself that any of this is making you better at anything.