This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh
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The letters that make up words is a common blind spot for AIs, since they are trained on strings of tokens (roughly words) they don't have a good concept of which letters are inside those words or what order they are in.
I find it bizarre that people find these obvious cases to prove the tech is worthless. Like saying cars are worthless because they can't go under water.
Then why is Google using it for question like that?
Surely it should be advanced enough to realise it's weakness with this kind of questions and just don't give an answer.
They are using it for every question. It's pointless. The only reason they are doing it is to blow up their numbers.
... they are trying to be infront. So that some future ai search wouldn't capture their market share. It's a safety thing even if it's not working for all types of questions.
Ding ding ding.
It's so they can have impressive metrics for shareholders.
"Our AI had n interactions this quarter! Look at that engagement!", with no thought put into what user problems it actually solves.
It's the same as web results in the Windows start menu. "Hey shareholders, Bing received n interactions through the start menu, isn't that great? Look at that engagement!", completely obfuscating that most of the people who clicked are probably confused elderly users who clicked on a web result without realising.
Line on chart must go up!
Yeah, but ... they also can't just do nothing and possibly miss out on something. Especially if they already invested a lot.