The boss of Google’s search engine warned towards the pitfalls of synthetic intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview printed on Saturday, as Google mother or father firm Alphabet battles to compete with blockbuster app ChatGPT.

«This kind of artificial intelligence we’re talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination,» Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vp at Google and head of Google Search, advised Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

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«This then expresses itself in such a way that a machine provides a convincing but completely made-up answer,» Raghavan stated in feedback printed in German. One of the basic duties, he added, was maintaining this to a minimal.

Google has been on the again foot after OpenAI, a startup Microsoft is backing with round $10 billion, in November launched ChatGPT, which has since wowed customers with its strikingly human-like responses to consumer queries.

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Alphabet Inc launched Bard, its personal chatbot, earlier this week, however the software program shared inaccurate data in a promotional video in a gaffe that value the corporate $100 billion in market worth on Wednesday.

Alphabet, which continues to be conducting consumer testing on Bard, has not but indicated when the app may go public.

«We obviously feel the urgency, but we also feel the great responsibility,» Raghavan stated. «We certainly don’t want to mislead the public.»