“The kind of artificial intelligence we’re talking about can sometimes lead to what we call hallucinations,” Google’s senior vice president and head of search engine Prabhakar Raghavan told Welt. Am Sonntag, a German newspaper, on Saturday. . He added that this “hallucination” could lead the technology to give a “fascinating but completely fictitious answer”.
The great success of ChatGPT led to the rise of AI. interest from tech giants. Microsoft invested $10 billion in ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, in January and shortly thereafter announced an improved search engine and web browser containing ChatGPT. Google has launched its own version of its chatbot called Bard, and China’s Baidu has announced that it will unveil its AI-powered “Ernie Bot” in March. Now, however, big players in the tech industry are warning that these seemingly omniscient robots can make mistakes, and mistakes are starting to pile up.
Raghavan will know, after Google’s Bard stumbled last week. The question he was asked was quite simple: which satellite first photographed a planet outside Earth’s solar system. Bard, which will be open to the public in a few weeks, gave the wrong answer in a Google promotional video, as Reuters first pointed out. When the aforementioned error was reported, the company’s stock fell 9% during the trading day and cost the company nearly $100 billion in market value.
“The problem is that he does good things for us, but he can make terrible mistakes not knowing what humanity is,” Wozniak said last Friday. He admits to being skeptical of the technology’s akin to human capabilities, but still thinks ChatGPT is impressive.
For his part, billionaire businessman Mark Cuban described A.I. reproductive. the technology used in ChatGPT is “real technology” even though its development has just begun. However, despite its many advantages, there is still much we don’t know about how these technologies can shape our future, according to Cuban. In December, he said that over time, the decision-making capabilities of chatbot-like technologies can be difficult to limit or understand.
“Once these things start to take on a life of their own…the machine itself will have an influence and it will be difficult for us to determine why and how the machine makes the decisions it makes and by whom. control the machine,” Cuba said in an episode of the Jon Stewart podcast Trouble with Jon Stewart. He added that misinformation will only get worse as the ability of A.I. improved.
Representatives from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment sent outside of their normal business hours.