Gen AI's Accuracy Problems Aren't Going Away Anytime Soon, Researchers Say

Generative AI chatbots are known to make a lot of mistakes. Let's hope you didn't follow Google's AI suggestion to add glue to your pizza recipe or eat a rock or two a day for your health. These errors are known as hallucinations: essentially, things the model makes up. Will this technology get better? Even researchers who study AI aren't optimistic that'll happen soon. That's one of the findings by a panel of two dozen artificial intelligence experts released this month by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The group also surveyed more than 400 of the association's members. In contrast to the hype you may see about developers being just years (or months, depending on who you ask) away from improving AI, this panel of academics and industry experts seems more guarded about how quickly these tools will advance. That includes not just getting facts right and avoiding bizarre mistakes. The reliability of AI tools needs to increase dramatically if developers ... Read full article.