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Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

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Re: Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

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It's hard not to trust answers which are superhumanly plausible.

Imagine being offered a choice of two oracles. The first oracle would give you an answer that is inspiring yet mysterious and oblique. The second gives an answer that is guaranteed to be unoriginal but also highly, highly plausible. It also maintains a record of all the questions and makes them available to unknown persons.

Re: Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

#8
Should I know, I mistakenly trusted Google when it told me there was a live music event last Sunday in a local bar, turns out Google's AI got confused because there is another bar with the same name in a different city here in Colombia, so I dressed up and everything just to go to a bar that was closed that day.

Re: Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

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Should I know, I mistakenly trusted Google when it told me there was a live music event last Sunday in a local bar, turns out Google's AI got confused because there is another bar with the same name in a different city here in Colombia, so I dressed up and everything just to go to a bar that was closed that day.

Definitely don't trust the overviews for anything super current. But I suspect you won't anymore :)

Re: Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

#10
> However, some experts say big tech firms such as Google should not be inviting users to fact-check their tools' output, but should focus instead on making their systems more reliable.

That is a very strange thing to say. They both are and should be doing both.

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