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Why AI Should Be Taught to Know Its Limits

2024/1/5
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This chapter introduces Amazon Q Business, a generative AI assistant designed to streamline various business tasks. It highlights the tool's ability to improve efficiency and reduce the time spent on tasks like summarizing quarterly results and complex analysis.
  • Amazon Q Business is a generative AI assistant designed to improve business efficiency.
  • It streamlines tasks such as summarizing quarterly results and complex analysis.
  • It allows businesses to accomplish tasks more quickly and easily.

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One of AI’s biggest, unsolved problems is what the advanced algorithms should do when they confront a situation they don’t have an answer for. For programs like Chat GPT, that could mean providing a confidently wrong answer, what’s often called a “hallucination”; for others, as with self-driving cars, there could be much more serious consequences. But what if AIs could be taught to recognize what they don’t understand and adjust accordingly? Usama Fayyad), the executive director for the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence) at Northeastern University thinks this could be the algorithmic answer to making future AIs better at what they do, by doing something too few humans can: recognizing their own limits.

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Artificial: The OpenAI Story) 

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