Who Watches the Watchman? Managing Cats, Eggplants, and AI Risks
Last Updated on December 17, 2024 by Editorial Team
Author(s): David Sweenor
Originally published on Towards AI.
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A couple of months back, my good friend Nick tried using generative AI to brainstorm names for his family’s new kittens. Rather than generating a list of names, Nick’s brainstorming buddy flagged the query as inappropriate due to a misunderstood context and denied Nick’s request. It was a simple ask that raised a red flag and highlighted the fact that AI can unexpectedly fail. At the time, I wasn’t too concerned, but it does open up a set of questions about reliability and oversight.
Warning: Bad puns for the image captions are coming.
If at first you don’t succeed, you try again.
Annoyance sets in:
As I finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI and am in the middle of Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, their dystopian tone is a bit… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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