Artificial Intelligence can be amazing. It has the world's knowledge at its imaginary fingertips and the ability to do so many incredible things, but, like us, it does make mistakes. Known as ...

AI Overviews doesn't just think this saying about the buses is real. It actually hallucinates an explanation for the fake idiom, trying to reason its way through it.

Sure, I just made it up, but Google's AI overviews result told me it's a "colloquial way of saying something exploded or became a sensation quickly," likely referring to the eye-catching colors ...

Big time. The latest evidence: You can trick Google's AI Overview (the automated answers at the top of your search queries) into explaining fictional, nonsensical idioms as if they were real.

But what does "meaning" mean? Google search’s made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said, explained A partial defense of (some of) AI Overview's fanciful idiomatic explanations.

Reddit / Digital Trends The latest AI trend is a funny one, as a user has discovered that you can plug a made-up phrase into Google and append it with “meaning,” then Google’s AI Overview ...

The point is, it's a lot of fun to make up idioms and watch Google's AI overview try its hardest to tell you what it means (via Futurism). We've had a lot of fun with this on the hardware team.

Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms. Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images ...