Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google's search AI is still spitting out confusing and often incorrect answers.when assessing Google's Search Generative Experience, or SGE for short, the AI-powered update to the tech giant's classic search bar is still giving incorrect or misleading answers nearly a year after it was, it does still hallucinate, which is AI terminology for confidently making stuff up.
Hallucinations aren't SGE's only problem, however. Even when it does cite real websites as sources, the quality of those sites is often suspect.
"This is equivalent to $8,014 per month, $1,849 per week, and $230.6 million per day," the AI-powered search beta's response continued. If you sum up those disparate numbers, they don't add up at all. The company seems to have updated some of its source information and removed SGE on others entirely. For instance, when searching Zuckerberg's net worth today, it gives the latest total of $170.3 billion USD — and doesn't give you the option to use generative AI to find out more.last week that it has begun making the generative AI option default even for those who haven't chosen to use it.
With its one-year birthday coming up, it's clear that SGE still has tons of problems — and it appears that Google is slowly bringing it into wider search results regardless.