How much can we really trust AI? It’s a huge question, given the startling growth of ChatGPT and other chatbots powered by the technology. What we do know is there are increasing reports that such chatbots are, to put it charitably, less than accurate.
How much can we really trust artificial intelligence? It’s a huge question, given the startling growth of ChatGPT and other chatbots powered by the technology. Millions of people around the world are now using these tools to craft emails, write essays for school, make purchases and do basic research.
“It takes a huge amount of surveillance data that is scraped from the darkest holes of the internet — it’s Reddit, it’s Wikipedia, it’s message board comments that are probably [from] 4Chan,” she said. Then, based on all that massive data and computational power, “it predicts what is likely to be the next word in the sentence. So it’s a statistical predictive engine.”The answers that ChatsGPT spits out may indeed be “likely,” Whittaker said.
“Why are we using a bullshit engine for anything serious?” she asked. “We are in an information ecosystem that is overrun by falsehoods, by half truths, by misinformation. And as a society, we need access to some form of shared reality.” Whittaker and Michael Isikoff on day one of Web Summit Rio 2023 at Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, on May 2.
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