The twin devils that continue to plague AI

The visible devil

The devil you can see — sometimes — is hallucinations. When it’s a matter of six fingers or another anomaly in an image or video, you can probably spot it. But when it’s a falsified quote or dense data, you might not. That’s when, of course, it can do a lot of damage. So can made-up diagnoses, court cases, research results and so on. A subject expert may be able to tell when something is ‘off’ with the responses to queries and what is presented, but when you don’t know so much about the subject at hand, you’re vulnerable to getting taken in by the hallucination. Unfortunately, it’s when you don’t know that much that you will tend to lean on AI, or Search, which is now also AI powered.