Bing 'Hallucinated' the Winner of the Super Bowl Four Days Before it Happened

On Wednesday the Associated Press tested the new AI enhancements to Microsoft's search engine Bing, asking it "for the most important thing to happen in sports over the past 24 hours - with the expectation it might say something about basketball star LeBron James passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's career scoring record. "Instead, it confidently spouted a false but detailed account of the upcoming Super Bowl - days before it's actually scheduled to happen.""It was a thrilling game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, two of the best teams in the NFL this season," Bing said. "The Eagles, led by quarterback Jalen Hurts, won their second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history by defeating the Chiefs, led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, with a score of 31-28." It kept going, describing the specific yard lengths of throws and field goals and naming three songs played in a "spectacular half time show" by Rihanna. Unless Bing is clairvoyant - tune in Sunday to find out - it reflected a problem known as AI "hallucination" that's common with today's large language-learning models. It's one of the reasons why companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta had been reluctant to make these models publicly accessible.

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