Accuracy of Google’s AI Overviews

 Accuracy of Google’s AI Overviews

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When you Google “do dogs know math?” and other important questions as you lie in bed at night, Google’s AI Overviews will provide an accurate response about 90% of the time, according to new research from the AI startup Oumi. While that seems pretty good, there are caveats: Since Google processes trillions of searches per year, 90% accuracy still equates to tens of millions of inaccuracies per hour (or hundreds of thousands per minute), the New York Times noted. More than half of accurate responses linked to sources that did not actually support the information. The second- and fourth-most-cited sources were...Facebook and Reddit. Google concedes that AI Overviews aren’t always accurate and encourages users to double check the info. And, for the record, dogs do possess a rudimentary understanding of math (I learned that from Google’s AI Overview).