Google AI Mode for Search Has Arrived. Proceed With Caution.

Last week, I asked Google to help me plan my daughter’s birthday party by finding a park in Oakland, Calif., 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.”

Google acknowledged the mistake and produced another list, which again included one of the parks with no tables.

I repeated this experiment by asking Google to…