AI tools are postponed as competent assistants that can easily help you in research, code, abbreviation, writing, and bring any kind of knowledge. But sometimes simple questions understand them. For example, Google’s AI overview is confused what year it is.
In the last few days, many users said that when they asked Google in which year it is, AI overview said that the current year is 2024.
This reporter received the same answer on Thursday morning when Google was asked if it was 2025.
Google finally set a late bug on Thursday.
Asked why this happened, Google did not provide a special cause, just saying that it was working on an update to avoid such issues.
A Google spokesperson said in a statement, “With all the search features, we strictly improve and use such examples to update our system. Most AI overviews provide useful, factual information, and we are actively working on an update to address this type of issue.”
Google has now been working on AI interviews for a few years, and this feature has created some notable blunders so far – just to name a couple, it recommends users to eat. “A small rock per day,” Rocks are a good source of vitamins and minerals, and even suggested Glue to help the cheese stick in a pizzaWhen the company rolled out this feature in Hindi in India, Techcrunch found that its answers were often inconsistent and confused.
In recent weeks, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has postponed the numbers used for the AI overview, stating that this feature is now being used by 1.5 billion users in more than 100 countries. He also said that in markets like the US and India, this feature is using more than 10% of the search engine for related questions. The company is making a lot of bets on driving people to use their AI-operated discovery and Q&A facilities.
