All the latest AI news and ongoings in the world.
May 31st, 2024
With nearly twenty fatalities and a thousand crashes, Tesla’s Autopilot is not much better than average human drivers. Tesla’s driver-assistance feature, called Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than reported this far. AI keeps making mistakes, and gets away with it. Does the “safer than your average driver” argument really hold up, still?
August 9th, 2023
A popular AI chatbot was caught lying on automated sales calls, telling users that it’s human. It is one thing that this isn’t ethical behavior, but the the more concerning element here is the fact that there was no guardrail built into the AI script that would prevent it from lying. Why would this not progress into lying about more serious issues, like committing fraud?
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“Everyone says AI is a black box, but that’s not really true — it’s more like chaos.” – Sven Cattell, mathematician.
This was one of the revealing quotes at the largest AI vulnerability testing event in Las Vegas, where some attendees broke no less than seven AI models, making them perform illegal operations, such as identity fraud. Fifty minutes to hack ChatGPT? Yes.
August 8th, 2023
Wendy’s continuing to test and employ the use of AI drive-thru chatbots. Wendy’s is continuing to expand its AI drive-thru chatbot to franchisees 2024. According to Wendy’s, the ordering service at a test location was 22 seconds faster than the average human-provided service. Other major fast-food brands are testing AI tools to achieve efficiency and automated up-sell to their customers as well.
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