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Can AI make mistakes?
DW (English)
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12/24/2024
AI appears to be superior to humans in many areas. But is it infallible? Of course not. There are regular epic fails by AI. So why isn’t the technology as smart as its makers claim?
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Can AI make mistakes?
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Of course. Google's AI recommended one user top their pizza with non-toxic glue
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to stop the cheese from slipping off.
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Not exactly intelligent. Among other unusual answers to user questions,
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the dogs have played in American basketball and football leagues
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and that Barack Obama was the first Muslim president of the US.
00:23
All fake news. But how does AI come up with such nonsense?
00:28
Google used summarised information in what it calls AI overviews
00:32
to provide quick answers.
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But the AI was unable to distinguish serious facts from jokes or satire.
00:40
The tip to add glue to pizza likely came from a joke on Reddit.
00:45
And however diligently AI learns, things can still go wrong.
00:49
Artificial intelligence used in a motorboat racing game
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was supposed to optimise itself.
00:55
But the AI made the boat spin in circles, catch fire
00:59
and crash into docks and other boats.
01:03
While the boat scored lots of points, it never crossed the finish line.
01:08
In this case, the goal was not formulated precisely enough for chap GPT.
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Mistakes like these can have drastic consequences in real life.
01:18
There were plans to use AI to categorise patients
01:20
depending on how urgently they need hospital treatment.
01:25
But the AI concluded that patients whose previous treatment had cost more
01:28
were sicker and therefore needed help more quickly.
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Big mistake.
01:33
Many poorer people only incur lower treatment costs
01:36
because they cannot afford to see a doctor, even if they're just as sick.
01:40
If AI sends them to the back of the queue,
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they're doubly discriminated against.
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What is clear is that AI is only ever as good as the data it's fed
01:50
and how precise its instructions from humans are.
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