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Google’s new tool lets large language models fact-check their responses

It could assist the company in its efforts to embed AI in more and more of its products.

Called DataGemma, it uses two methods to help large language models fact-check their responses against reliable data and cite their sources more transparently to users. It can tell you the GDP of Iran, but it’s unable to confirm the date of the First Battle of Fallujah or when Taylor Swift released her most recent single. The initial version has been trained on only about 700 questions, and fine-tuning the model required his team to manually check each individual fact it generated.

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