Google’s AI Overview feature has had quite the bumpy ride since it was released. There was the time that it got NFL rules wrong during a game, and the time it made up meanings for fake idioms, and the time when it didn’t know what year it was. The feature’s latest bumble currently entertaining the Internet sort of feels like an extension of that last one.
Users began noticing that the AI Overview feature didn’t always answer correctly when they asked how long ago 1995 was. Specifically, when users queried Google “Was 1995 30 years ago?” the AI would often respond saying that 1995 was not 30 years ago (just in case anyone was wondering, 1995 was definitely 30 years ago).
The AI isn’t always wrong, as Mashable quickly discovered. The publication’s team asked Google this simple query multiple times, and sometimes it got the answer right. But other times it would say that 1995 was not 30 years ago, only to follow that with a sentence stating that it was. Or it would say that 1995 was only 29 years ago, or even both 29 and 30 years ago (?). Google did not comment on the issue as of Monday morning.
