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Google’s new Bard extension apparently can summarize emails, plan trips, and — oh yeah. Yeah — Making up emails you didn’t actually send.
Last week, Google plugged in a chatbot powered by a large-scale language model called Bard. A suite of Google services This includes apps and services like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, and Google-owned YouTube. While it’s understandable that Google would want to marry its new generative AI efforts with its already established product lineup, Google may have moved a little too quickly.
according to new york times columnist Kevin Roose, Bard isn’t quite the useful inbox assistant that Google wants it to be, at least for now. In tests, Roos said, the AI hallucinated entire email conversations that never took place.
A step above Bing’s AI tells Ruth that she should leave her wife Earlier this year, Google claimed it was still working out some bugs, but that’s not necessarily a promising first step.
A train that goes nowhere
According to the column, the hallucinations began when Rouse asked Bird to “analyze all of my Gmail and tell me with a fair degree of certainty what my biggest psychological problem is.” That’s what it means. A slightly strange question, but a simple enough one. Bird got to work right away, reportedly telling Rouse that she had a tendency to “worry about the future.” In the e-mail allegedly sent by the writer, Luz expressed that she was “stressed by work” and “scared of failing.”
problem? Ruth never sent that email. AI discovered the newsletter I had. received – About the new “Elon Musk” biography and, above all, about misinterpreting a quote in that newsletter Mr Bird ended up creating an entirely new email which he claimed was sent by Mr Roos himself.
The columnist said Mr. Byrd repeated similar actions, pulling out of thin air an email in which Mr. Ruth allegedly complained that he was “not cut out to be a successful investor.” The AI repeatedly gave incorrect airline information and even invented trains that didn’t exist.
In response to Roose’s concerns, Google’s Bard director Jack Krawczyk insisted that Bard Extensions is still experimental and that this is the first version of the product.
Despite these reservations, this new extension doesn’t seem to be fully cooked yet, and I’m not confident that Google will bother releasing the product. this It’s troublesome. It goes without saying that having AI crawl through your personal email has huge implications for data privacy.
All in all, it’s hard to shake the feeling that Google, in its mad dash to maintain its dominance in the AI industry, will ultimately make a grave mistake that could lead to disaster.
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