Google to improve AI Overviews, impose limits after odd, incorrect answers

Google is placing limits on its AI Overviews search feature after it produced several bizarre and inaccurate results, the company said on May 30.

AI Overviews, introduced at Google I/O 2024 on May 14 after nearly a year of experimentation, offers users quick AI-generated summaries of topics with links for deeper exploration, appearing at the top of search results, according to Moneycontrol.

Initially made available to ‘hundreds of millions’ of users in the US, the tech giant plans to extend AI Overviews to over a billion people by the end of the year. This launch is part of Google’s effort to revamp its search product for the generative AI era, amid renewed competition from companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and new entrants like Perplexity.