Her six grandchildren, ages 1 to 10, had fun playing outside all day. Dinner is finished. The kitchen has been cleaned. I finished my bath. It's time to talk.
Is AI a source of truth?
Carrie Knowles
The cousins crawled onto the couch and surrounded their eldest son, Neil. He pulled out his iPhone, looked out at the eagerly assembled crowd, selected a storyline, and entered their names and characteristics into his ChatGPT.
In less than a minute, a full-fledged adventure story starring the cousins was created. They were enchanted.
The story that Neil read was woven in a way reminiscent of the six YA authors.
It was a parlor trick. It's fun, but it's still a trick.
In my opinion, it was the “age of innocence” for AI.
truth or result
Even though Neil read a dazzling story to them that night, he later commented that there were some real problems with the system. For example, he asked his ChatGPT to create my work history.
Within seconds, my life appeared, but more fantasy than truth. Thanks to that, I was able to graduate from a school I had never attended before. It has given me a number of amazing awards I didn't even know existed, added a few more books to my list of accomplishments, and allowed me to properly embellish a few other things.
Was there any truth in it? In fact, just a little bit here and there is enough to make me somewhat recognizable and plausible. But much of it wasn't true. So not true, it scared me.
What if this embellished ChatGPT resume leaks onto the internet?
I could easily see that a lack of truth in my AI resume could have some pretty embarrassing and even legal consequences.
That's when I started worrying about the dark powers of AI
Face to face with AI
Why did I fabricate what I achieved?
AI can quickly collect and present data, but it cannot determine what is true and what is false. All you have to do is collect and present the material you find without any questions asked.
So where did ChatGPT get the fake data? Maybe it came from someone with a similar name? Probably due to an article reporting incorrect details about me or my work. Perhaps it involved daydreaming and thinking I should have done better than I was doing right now so I could inflate the accomplishment a little extra. I don't know.
All I know is that it was wrong, and that being wrong is a real problem.
Can you trust ChatGPT and AI to collect and present the whole truth?
no i don't.
I'm not the only one feeling anxious about this new “thing”. Pick up a magazine or newspaper and you'll find another article about AI: its capabilities and problems.
The Vatican also now has a go-to AI ethicist. This is Father Benanti. Pope Francis commissioned him to help protect the vulnerable from the coming technology storm of AI. In addition to advising the Pope, Father Benanti also teaches a course in moral theology and ethics entitled “The Fall of Babel: The Challenges of Digital, Social Networks, and Artificial Intelligence.”
I'm not a theologian or moral ethicist, but the false resume made me wary of using AI in my work.
I received an email announcing a new app for iPhone that can unlock the power of AI and reduce my workload.
The fine print promised that this easy-to-use app, powered by AI, would be able to search and collect data on any topic I needed for my job.
You can search, but can you think? Can this new phone app determine what is true and what is false? Can it generate its own new ideas, or can it collect the ideas of others and present them as its own research? Do you have it?
Searching for other people's ideas on the Internet and compiling them into original research through algorithms is one of the truly gray areas of intellectual property theft.
The best thing about being human is the ability to reflect and have original thoughts. AI currently cannot even determine whether something is true or false. You can only give other people ideas.
When gathering background information or thinking about a problem or storyline, we can gather information from books we've read, people we've talked to, places we've been, and even through internet searches and the use of AI. there is. The information you collect is not a final product, but a starting point for creating something original.
What AI can offer you right away should never be seen as the whole story, like the story AI will weave for our grandchildren.
Truth: Using AI to do all your work is just copying what others have done.
I think it used to be called plagiarism.
References
The monk who became the Vatican's oracle on AI
New York Times, February 10, 2024
