When Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, introduced a generative artificial intelligence feature for the company’s search engine last month, he and his colleagues demonstrated the new capability with six text-based queries that the public could try out.
The questions included “how do you clean a fabric sofa” and “what should I use to get a coffee stain out of my carpet.” These were intended to highlight how Google’s new feature, A.I.
Overviews, could generate full and useful information summaries above traditional search results.
But by Friday, only one of the six queries still yielded an A.I.
Users loudly complained on social media about the mistakes, in many cases outright making fun of Google.
Persons:
Sundar Pichai
Organizations:
The New York Times, Care, Google