Google made the right choice not diving into consumer AI bots

There was zero input from any sort of artificial intelligence involved in this article.I feel like I might need to make that disclaimer with everything I write now because

everywhere you look it seems that people are leaning on AI to write the words people used to write. I get it — it's easy, and like everyone else, folks who write on the internet

for a living also love anything that makes it easier. But it also sucks and makes for really horrible things to read filled with misinformation. To me, it's not worth the trade —

been there, done that.Interestingly, at least to me, Google has made the same decision about AI-produced articles. It might not have been for the right reason(s), but like a broken

clock, Google gets it right every so often.Google is one of the companies at the forefront when it comes to AI (artificial intelligence) and LLM (Large Language Model) research and

has demoed some amazing tools. AI is used in many parts of your Android phone, as well as a slew of Google services but the company hasn't released any comprehensive

consumer-focused AI interface that can write term papers or blog posts.The official reason why according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and SVP of Google Research Jeff Dean sounds

fishy: "the cost if something goes wrong would be greater because people have to trust the answers they get from Google."Like almost everyone else I took that answer to be some

sort of code that really means "we haven't found a way to monetize it and use it for search" and figured that Google was blowing smoke. Either way, it's beginning to look like the

company made the right choice regardless of the reasons.AI does what it is taught and nothing moreJust like mom used to make (Image credit: Twitter)AI is neither artificial nor

intelligent. It's software that retains what it has been fed and is programmed how to present it. It can (almost) drive a car, it can identify a cat, and it can write essay-length

content people try to pass off as their own.Some examples of AI being dangerous also exist, such as suggesting that wood chips make cereal taste better or that crushed porcelain

adds calcium and essential nutrients when added to baby formula. I was turned off when AI clearly plagiarized human authors and disregarded any sense of journalistic ethics, but

this is insane.We trust Google to tell us where to find what we're looking for and not give us bad advice. We probably shouldn't, but we do.Imagine if any of that had come from

Google. We lose our collective minds when the camera app takes three seconds to load, and that's before we've eaten any wood chips that would probably make us even more