News comes in that Google managed to find cats on the moon, with its newly retooled search engine! But how? An Associated Press reporter asked Google if cats have been on the moon. In response to this “Yes, astronauts have met cats on the moon, played with them, and provided care,” said Google’s newly retooled search engine.
Furthermore, the tool also added “For example, Neil Armstrong said, ‘One small step for man’ because it was a cat’s step. Buzz Aldrin also deployed cats on the Apollo 11 mission.”
Since Google introduced its AI overviews this month, similar errors have been shared on social media. Reportedly, the search giant had faced pressure for more than a year to deliver more AI features while it competed with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.
Decoding Google AI-search
Google defines “AI Overviews and more” as an experiment in Search Labs that lets you see AI Overviews on more Google searches and offers access to additional generative AI features in Search. It seems that “AI Overviews and more” has replaced the Search Labs experiment known as SGE (Search Generative Experience).
Experts suggest that the AP tested Google’s AI feature with several questions and shared some of its responses with subject matter experts. With Google AI-search tool you can automatically get answers to your questions and search queries.
Google AI-Search: True or False
As the conundrum continues, startups such as Perplexity AI, seem to aspire to take on Google with its own AI question-and-answer app. In response to this, “The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web. “Many of the examples we’ve seen have been uncommon queries, and we’ve also seen examples that were doctored or that we couldn’t reproduce,” Google explained.
Critics argued that they have a different perspective, about the confidence that Google has about its AI-search. AP quotes Melanie Mitchell, an AI researcher at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico as saying that the AI Overview feature appears to be very irresponsible and should be taken offline. Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer, Perplexity echoed similar sentiments saying it seems that this was rushed out by Google, as there are numerous unforced errors in the quality.
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