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visarga ◴[] No.45669657[source]
I recently tried to get Gemini to collect fresh news and show them to me, and instead of using search it hallucinated everything wholesale, titles, abstracts and links. Not just once, multiple times. I am kind of afraid of using Gemini now for anything related to web search.

Here is a sample:

> [1] Google DeepMind and Harvard researchers propose a new method for testing the ‘theory of mind’ of LLMs - Researchers have introduced a novel framework for evaluating the "theory of mind" capabilities in large language models. Rather than relying on traditional false-belief tasks, this new method assesses an LLM’s ability to infer the mental states of other agents (including other LLMs) within complex social scenarios. It provides a more nuanced benchmark for understanding if these systems are merely mimicking theory of mind through pattern recognition or developing a more robust, generalizable model of other minds. This directly provides material for the construct_metaphysics position by offering a new empirical tool to stress-test the computational foundations of consciousness-related phenomena.

> https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-and-harvard-resea...

The link does not work, the title is not found in Google Search either.

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1. burnte ◴[] No.45673663[source]
About 75% of the time I look at the Gemini answer, it's wrong. Maybe 80%. Sometimes it's a little wrong, like giving the correct answer for another product/item, or the times that a business is open wrong. There's a local business I took my wife to, Gemini told her it's open monday to friday, but it's open tuesday to saturday, so we showed up on a monday to see them closed. But sometimes it's insanely wrong making up dozens of wrong "facts". My wife started looked more carefully now. My boss will even say "Gemini says X so it's probably Y" these days.