Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It's Still 2024

What Year Is It? Talk about cutting-edge tech. Google's more-than-frequently-wrong AI Overviews search feature still thinks it's 2024. The annoying AI box, which has remained error-riddled since its inception just over a year ago, has confidently been telling users that it's still 2024, as Wired reports. Simply asking AI Overviews if it's 2025 resulted in a head-scratching answer. "No, it is not 2025," the AI responded, leading to widespread mockery on social media. "Wait did Google announce a time machine at I/O?" one user quipped, referring to the tech company's conference earlier this month. But it didn't take long for Google to interfere and squash the bug, as TechCrunch found, with AI Overviews now providing a correct answer to the query. The humiliating instance highlights a persistent and glaring problem plaguing some of the most advanced large language models: frequent hallucinations remain an enormous — and growing — issue, leading to copious confusion online and signif ... Read full article.