{"id":186592,"date":"2024-04-01T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/googles-ai-still-giving-idiotic-answers-nearly-a-year-after-launch"},"modified":"2024-04-01T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:25:41","slug":"googles-ai-still-giving-idiotic-answers-nearly-a-year-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/googles-ai-still-giving-idiotic-answers-nearly-a-year-after-launch","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly a Year After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-ai-still-giving-idiotic-answers-nearly-a-year-after-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google\u2019s search AI is still spitting out confusing and often incorrect answers.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/04\/01\/new-ai-google-search-sge\/\" class=\"\"><em>Washington Post<\/em> found<\/a> when assessing Google\u2019s Search Generative Experience, or SGE for short, the AI-powered update to the tech giant\u2019s classic search bar is still giving incorrect or misleading answers nearly a year after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-ai-search-journalism\" class=\"\">introduced last May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While SGE no longer tells users that they <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-search-ai-melt-eggs\" class=\"\">can melt eggs<\/a> or that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/google-search-ai-slavery\" class=\"\">slavery was good<\/a>, it does still hallucinate, which is AI terminology for confidently making stuff up. A search for a made-up Chinese restaurant called \u201cDanny\u2019s Dan Dan Noodles\u201d in San Francisco, for example, spat out references to \u201clong lines and crazy wait times\u201d and even gave phony citations about 4,000-person lines and a two-year waitlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google\u2019s search AI is still spitting out confusing and often incorrect answers. As the Washington Post found when assessing Google\u2019s Search Generative Experience, or SGE for short, the AI-powered update to the tech giant\u2019s classic search bar is still giving incorrect or misleading answers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}