Pathways" is a machine-learning technique created at Google. says that PaLM 2 has been trained on "a diverse set of sources: web documents, books, code, mathematics, and conversational data," but does not go into detail about what exactly that data is. During Google I/O, company reps demoed AI features in many of its major products, which means a broad swath of the public could be battling AI confabulations soon