Google’s new AI-powered search has arrived. Proceed with caution

Now, with generative AI, the technology that powers chatbots by using complex language models to guess what words belong together, you can ask more specific questions or make complicated requests. — Reuters

Recently, I asked Google to help me plan my daughter’s birthday party by finding a park in Oakland, California, with picnic tables. The site generated a list of parks nearby, so I went to scout two of them out – only to find there were, in fact, no tables.

“I was just there,” I typed to Google. “I didn’t see wooden tables.”