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The government says more people need to use AI. Here's why that's wrong
The Conversation, Vol.6 September 2024
2024
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Abstract
The Australian government this week released voluntary artificial intelligence (AI) safety standards, alongside a proposals paper calling for greater regulation of the use of the fast-growing technology in high-risk situations. The take-home message from federal Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic, was: We need more people to use AI and to do that we need to build trust. But why exactly do people need to trust this technology? And why exactly do more people need to use it? AI systems are trained on incomprehensibly large data sets using advanced mathematics most people don't understand. They produce results we have no way of verifying. Even flagship, state-of-the-art systems produce output riddled with errors. ChatGPT appears to be growing less accurate over time. Even at its best it can't tell you what letters are in the word " strawberry ". Meanwhile, Google's Gemini chatbot has recommended putting glue on pizza, among other comical failures.
Details
- Title
- The government says more people need to use AI. Here's why that's wrong
- Authors
- Erica Mealy (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.6 September 2024
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.3ajsm7vsv
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991064795902621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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