Google CEO admits he, experts 'don't fully understand' how AI works

Sundar Pichai told '60 Minutes' that the state of the technology is still somewhat of a black box to researchers. Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned society may not be ready for the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), and that neither he nor other experts fully understand how generative AI models like ChatGPT actually work. AI models like ChatGPT and Google's Bard are capable of near-human like conversation, writing text, code, even poems and song lyrics in response to user queries. But the chatbots are also known to get things wrong, often referred to as "hallucinations." Pichai said experts in the field have "some ideas" as to why chatbots make the statements they do, including hallucinations, but compared it to a "black box."