Google is losing it

How does je dare to.

Similar results from Spain. Not sure why it thinks I'm in Michigan.

It shows the exact same results in Brazil

It could also be A/B testing, so not everyone will have the AI running in general

Technically, generative AI will always give the same answer when given the same input. But, what happens is a "seed" is mixed in to help randomize things, that way it can give different answers every time even if you ask it the same question.

That seems like a Wikipedia capture for the wrong page instead of AI.

There are actually a bunch of these. Adding glue to pizza sauce (scraped from an old reddit post), replacing Blinker Fluid every two years, etc.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

I too am skeptical, but there have been so many of these the last few days... is it just a new meme?

When you do this query, won't you get the same?

Yup me too 🫡

Me too. But a different person on my same network got a clean result.

Oh perfect. We'll just point production to your machine.

Same

I don't get the doom but idk I have been watching this stuff closely for over a decade. I think it's exciting and people are having All these strange expectations out of these systems all the sudden just because they're smart. Well they were smart before any of this generative AI stuff. Also scientific breakthroughs in medicine, blind people have something that can assist them. As someone with some disabilities, and knowing a lot of people who also have disabilities, it seems to be the privilege of the healthy and comfortable to keep the status quo.

Also if we want to play that game we were so fucked by climate change already that I had no hope. Now I have a little. It's not going away so let's push for open open open free software. (And model weights)

Why? this is great content.

But not from a knowledge engine. It makes sense if some rando just spouted off a date from the top of their head but this is the former world leader in knowledge capture and search.

I do random hobby tinkering and search results have become so useless that I'm having to read a lot more books. Everything takes longer this way.

I remember having to buy a book. A book with URLs. Before search engines existed.

Good times.

On Google: I'll never forgive them for getting rid of their pseudo secret government search google.com/unclesam where I found a lot of .mil docs I probably shouldn't have been able to.

This is why I love Duckduckgo, I can turn off AI and ads.

That's low end of average for a human. A particularly dim human admittedly, but we've all met them.

I used Qwant for a few days and then it popped up a modal dialog asking me to turn off my ad-blocker. Never used it again after that.

Thanks. I’ll check these out.

What do you prefer about each of them?

qwant uses bing and is mostly a proxy for it. Startpage is a proxy for google. the only thing they really do is protect your privacy, they don't give you better search results.

Tried start page after DDG outage on Thursday and I'm liking it a lot

Seems to only have an iOS app right now. There is a desktop version for Windows and MacOS Here.

It is annoying that it wants to send you the download link by email though.

Edit: Here is an example of how the results look when asking for opening times of a book store in my city.

I just got the same result

not fake.

I just searched the same words and got the same text.

I just Googled "Fall Guy" and the AI response doesn't match the OP. I was shown a summary of the movie.

Nope, been thinking about what it would take to make one though.

I literally don't see any AI blurbs at all in my searches. I wonder if one of my 4 ad blockers is killing the javascript element.

I'm in Sweden and didn't opt-in for anything.

I'm in the US and opted into the beta for the AI stuff, but so far my experience has been generally positive.

I wonder if they considered reddit votes to try to give more weight to high quality answers but also high quality jokes.

But without votes pure nonsense becomes equal to truth.

Humans could use reddit because we understand the site enough to be able to filter the valuable from the bad.

I feel like the answer would be in between ai specifically to be such a filter.

Every such post of google failing i have screen capped and then asked chatgpt for a more detailed explanation to do what google suggests i do. Everytime it managed to call out the issues. So just allowing an ai to proofread its response in context of the question could stop a lot of hallucinations.

But its at least 3 times as slow and expensive if it needs to change its first response.

But i guess doing things properly isnt profitable , better to just rush tech and kill your most famous product.

They fooled me into thinking it was likely to be terrible with their ad / trailer in that case. I’ll give it a go sometime when time. Or were you sent by google to make up for their bad AI ? ;) are you good AI guy ?