Sundar Pichai, Google executive, warns people about AI and to: “not blindly trust everything they say”
The Google executive has warned that “the current state-of-the-art AI technology is prone to some errors.”
In a recent interview with the BBC, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai issued a clear warning: artificial intelligence still has holes in it, and blindly trusting what is says is risky. The oracle is fallible.
Funnily enough, the Google executive encouraged users to pair AI tools with more traditional sources of information, such as, ahem, Google Search: “This is why people also use Google search, and we have other products that are more grounded in providing accurate information,” he told the British news outlet.
He made clear that AI is indeed useful in creative contexts such as writing or generating ideas, but issued caution that people need to understand the strengths and limitations of each tool. People “have to learn to use these tools for what they’re good at, and not blindly trust everything they say,” he warned.
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“The current state-of-the-art AI technology is prone to some errors”
“We take pride in the amount of work we put in to give us as accurate information as possible, but the current state-of-the-art AI technology is prone to some errors.”
He warned that, should a market “bubble” burst, even his own Google would not necessarily escape unscathed: “I think no company is going to be immune, including us.”
“We can look back at the internet right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the internet was profound,” he added. “I expect AI to be the same. So I think it’s both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei echoed Pichai’s concerns regarding the potential dangers of the technology as it advances as a rapid rate: “I worry a lot about the unknowns. I don’t think we can predict everything for sure," he told CBS. “I believe it will reach that level, that it will be smarter than most or all humans in most or all ways.”
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