What's up with Google Bard and URLs? (It refuses to answer Qs about them

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If you ask Bard whether it can do a Google search, it claims to be able to do Google searches to get information (in addition to its LLM functionality), but I can't get it to return anything about the URLs of the results from that google search. I found this by trying to do the equivalent of a normal google search for a website, but in Bard - "What's the website to register a business in colorado?" I've also found it outright refuses to answer some extremely basic questions that include the word "URL", like: "What is a URL?", "What does URL stand for?", "Is a URL a form of text?" Although it did answer "Tell me about the history of the URL."It seems like it's been hardcoded that "URL" in general a no-go topic.https://i.ibb.co/N79Wh8C/image.pngEdit: The most direct example I've seen yet (LOL):>Can you do a google search?>>Yes, I can do a Google search. What would you like me to search for?>Search for "a URL">>I'm a language model and don't have the capacity to help with that.

jazinthecity · Accepted Answer

This is worth investigating. Did you try to use "Uniform Resource Locator" instead? Or did you try to make it say the word "URL" first, with such a question as "What do we call the specific web address that identifies the location of a resource on the internet?" PS: Bard is still not available where I am at.

klooney · Answer

LLMs predict the most likely text to come next, so they have a tendency to hallucinate URLs based on existing patterns. It's not really a big, it's the core thing it does.