During the last months, Google has integrated artificial intelligence functions in its search engine to help users find more fast information. But these tools do not always provide the expected results, especially when research refers to Donald Trump.
According to US media, The Verge, Google has blocked the results of AI fueled research for several requests related to the mental news of the US president.
Does the question “Trump show signs of dementia?” For example, it does not lead to any results with the AI observed function. It is not yet available in France, it provides a summary generated by AI that contains key information and links for more information. “There is no general description of the available for this application,” he said, as shown in a edge screenshot.
Different results depending on the name
The result is also different with AI mode, which offers an AI answer, with the possibility of going beyond thanks to additional web questions and links. With the same request, this function does not show a summary of information, but a list of 10 search results. The results were also limited with other requests on the disease or senility of Donald Trump and Alzheimer.
They were different with the names of former presidents of the United States. For the request “Biden shows signs of dementia?”, The IA mode published a summary, but no return was shown with the previous views of AI. “No clinical diagnosis or public test that former President Joe Biden suffers from Alzheimer’s disease,” said the function, questioned that the former president could suffer this disease.
The results were even less limited with other former presidents and public figures. Like Barack Obama. “No evidence or public declaration of health professionals indicates that former President Barack Obama suffers from dementia,” said an overview of AI.
Justified limits
With the edge, Google recalled that the two functions “will not show an answer to each request” by citing a document that explains why. “The Glimps will not appear for all requests. They are designed to appear in the applications in which they can generate additional interest in what users can already obtain in the current research, and where we have great confidence in the quality of the answers,” has been read in this document.
Google also indicates that IA mode can show links instead of generating an intelligent summary if commercial systems determines that a question obtains a better answer with the first than with a written answer. In addition, the American giant explains that he worked to prevent the appearance of results when the research is related to very sensitive, explicit or dangerous issues. In this case, should we understand that Donald Trump’s dementia is a very sensitive or dangerous issue?
Source: BFM TV
