Google’sAI Overviewfeature doesn’t have thebest reputation, and it seems the company is desperately trying to improve it.
In a recentblog post, Google announced it is launchingGemini 2.0for AI Overviews in the US to help answer “harder questions,” like those involving math or coding. Google claims that with Gemini 2.0, AI Overviews will “provide faster and higher quality responses.”
If you’re unfamiliar with AI Overviews, it’s a feature on Google search that summarizes search results using AI and spits out its answer at the top of the search page. However, AI Overview can get things wrong, including what year it is (viaDigital Trends).
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Is it 2025? Google’s AI Overview thinks not
“Is it 2025?” might be one of the easiest questions on planet earth to answer correctly, but it appears that it might be too much forGoogle’s AI Overview. If you Google the question, the AI Overview’s answer at the top of the page is: “No, it is not currently the year 2025. The current year is 2024. 2025 is the year that will come after 2024.”
I Googled this myself, as did other Pocket-lint staff members and a few of my friends, and we all got the same result, so it doesn’t seem like an isolated occurrence. If this isn’t proof that AI Overview still needs a lot of work, I don’t know what is. Hopefully, with the rollout of Gemini 2.0, AI Overviews will see a vast improvement, but that has yet to be seen. Google claims that over a billion people have used AI Overviews, and the feature is arguably helpful in some cases, but it’s always best to double-check its work.
While Gemini’s abilities are seemingly leagues ahead ofApple Intelligenceand somewhat on-par withChatGPT, Google still has a lot of work cut out for it ahead. Hopefully, AI Overview will know its 2025 soon.
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