AI Overview (sometimes) admits that it doesn't have an answer

When I first encountered AI Overview (AIO) about half a year ago, I was amazed by how it would whirl and swirl while searching for an answer to whatever query I had entered into the Google search engine.  It would usually find a helpful answer within a second.

As the months passed, the response time became more rapid (usually instantaneous), the answers better organized and almost always helpful, but sometimes AIO would simply not answer.

About a week ago, I was stunned when occasionally AIO — after thinking for a split second — would declare that it didn't have an answer for what I had asked about.

To know what you do not know, that is the mark of true wisdom.

 

Selected readings

• "AI Overview: bits and pieces (German "ich" and Starbuck WA)" (10/11/24)
• "AI Overview: Snake River and Walla Walla" (10/10/24)