Google has shared an urgent warning for anyone who uses the conversational chatbot ChatGPT, as it may lead to something called "hallucinations".
The chatbot has been trained using OpenAI technology. People can log on and chat with it, and it'll interact with you in a conversational way - like talking to a real person.
But bosses at Google say that people should take care when using it as it has the potential to give out inaccurate information that you might think is correct.
These "hallucinations" shouldn't be confused with the ones that humans experience in their minds, but it's the term Google is using for when chatbots give out convincing but false information.
Birmingham Live reports that Prabhakar Raghavan, a senior vice president at Google, issued a warning over the tech to German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag on Saturday.
"This type of artificial intelligence we're talking about can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination," he explained. "This is then expressed in such a way that a machine delivers a convincing but completely fictitious answer."
"The huge language models behind this technology make it impossible for humans to monitor every conceivable behaviour of the system. But we want to test it on a large enough scale that in the end we're happy with the metrics we use to check the factuality of the responses.
"We are considering how we can integrate these options into our search functions, especially for questions to which there is not just a single answer."
He added: "Of course we feel the urgency, but we also feel the great responsibility. We hold ourselves to a very high standard. And it is also my goal to be a leader in chatbots in terms of the integrity of the information but also the responsibilities we take.
"This is the only way we will be able to keep the trust of the public."
ChatGPT skyrocketed in popularity just after Christmas, with 100 million users recorded in January 2023. It's still free to use at the moment as it's still in its research phase.
Elon Musk, who was one of the founders of OpenAI before leaving, described ChatGPT as "scary good" and said we "aren't far from dangerously strong AI".
Sam Altman, OpenAI chief, said previously: "I agree on being close to dangerously strong AI in the sense of an AI that poses e.g. a huge cybersecurity risk. And I think we could get to real AGI in the next decade, so we have to take the risk of that extremely seriously too."
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