Google’s AI Keeps Hallucinating. Does Anyone Care?

(Bloomberg Opinion) — For years, to “google” meant to tap the web’s prodigious data. Today it means wading through ads, spam and, most recently, wildly inaccurate AI answers. The new AI Overview feature rolled out by Google over the last week has led to a flurry of errors that must have Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai cringing. When asked about cheese sliding off pizza, it recommended a user apply glue. It suggested to another that a python was a mammal.