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by nicklecompte 749 days ago
From The Verge[1]:

  Google spokesperson Meghann Farnsworth said the mistakes came from “generally very uncommon queries, and aren’t representative of most people’s experiences.” The company has taken action against violations of its policies, she said, and are using these “isolated examples” to continue to refine the product.
At this point it just feels like gaslighting.

2022 AI critics: "Isn't this still just autoregression? The LLM undoubtedly performs well on high-probability questions. But since it doesn't form causal mental models, it seems to be doing badly on more uncommon questions."

2022 AI advocates: "No, these machines have True Reasoning abilities. Maybe you're just too dumb to use them properly?"

2024 critics: "Hmm, this stuff still seems to shit the bed on trivial questions if they are slightly left field. Look: it does rot-1 and rot-13 ciphers just fine but it can't do rot-2."

2024 advocates: "Shut up and accept your data gruel."

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overvi...

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>generally very uncommon queries

I was just at the grocery store, googling if you can make whipped cream with half and half, and their LLM tries to gaslight me as the top result. Really doesn't seem that uncommon to me.

https://www.google.com/search?q=can+you+make+whipped+cream+w...