At the risk of over-posting, I cannot resist a post of several items current in the news which are just so fascinating and informative of the current state of AI activity.;
*A suit has been filed in California, the land of innovation even in law, claiming against social media firms for damages derived from addiction to that media. No reason that theory could not be used against AI, either against the developer or against a person or company that put out AI-generated content that caused or led to an addiciton..
*If AI hallucination wrongly accuses a person of something horrible, can that be slander? If spoken by a person, it could support a legal suit. But if it is generated by an AI system, who is the speaker? It is the machine but, is it a person? The designer of the system? Is for example Microsoft liable to a John Doe when its system hallucinates and says that John Doe stole from his employer?
*Two fascinating items in the NYTimes today:
- Nvida is a manufacturer of chips used in AI. Current interest in AI spiked the share price of this company by 20% yesterday, giving it a market value of $775B, fifth-highest valuation of any company anywhere. Seems to inferentially support the hype that AI is going to be huge in the lives of human beings.
- Advice column on how to ask questions of GAI and get the type of answer you want: start by telling the system the level of information and how it will be used (“Act as if you are an expert in XYZ and you are going to improve your manufacturing of XYZ”); ask the system “Do you need any more information to do this task?”; if the reply is wrong, ask for a redo pointing out error; keep open your threads of inquiry so in follow-up responses the system can see what has transpired and perhaps learn how better to answer.
I note that the last suggestion would require me to be more polite and politic with my AI than I am with my human partners of whom I seek advice. Sort of counter-intuitive….