Nobody understands how AI works
This story initially appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox initially, register here I've been try out utilizing AI assistants in my daily work. The most significant barrier to their working is they frequently get things blatantly incorrect. In one case, I utilized an AI transcription platform while speaking with somebody about a handicap, just for the AI summary to firmly insist the discussion had to do with autism. It's an example of AI's "hallucination" issue, where big language designs just make things up. Just recently we've seen some AI failures on a far larger scale. In the current (amusing) gaffe, Google's Gemini declined to create pictures of white individuals, specifically white guys. Rather, users had the ability to produ...