Working with Broken
Tony Hirst,
OUseful.Info, the blog...,
Feb 01, 2023
As Tony Hirst reports, "OpenAI announce the release of an AI generated text identification tool that they admit is broken ('not fully reliable', as they euphemistically describe it)." And he asks, "is this the new way of doing things? Giving up on the myth that things work properly, and instead accept that we have to work with tools that are known to be a bit broken? That we have to find ways of working with them that accommodate that?" I think the answer is "yes and no". No, we should not use "not fully reliable" tools for mission-critical systems like financial transactions or heavy machinery operations. But for a lot of tasks, 'not fully reliable' is good enough. It's a principle we've long since learned to apply with humans, because humans are often 'not fully reliable', and we'll now need to learn to adopt with machines. Image: Reddit.
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