Artificial intelligence is like an intern ready to lie in their statements to please the employer. In an interview with the TV channel about this GIS News said Ethan Mollik, a professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
AI tools can be useful despite their tendency to make factual errors, he says. The scientist noted that this is not much different from people, especially from those who are new to a particular field of knowledge.
“It’s better to think of it as a person – like an intern for example. AI is an endless intern who lies a bit and sometimes wants to make their superiors happy with it,” Mollik said.
The professor thought that e-mail writing was a way to use artificial intelligence to help people overcome obstacles in daily life and be more productive.
But the expert believes AI, like trainees, needs guidance to make its results useful. “A person should help him, not the other way around. AI cannot be infallible, but it can save you a lot of time by taking the first step in solving a frustrating task,” Mollik concluded.
In May, MIT professor Daron Acemoğlu told Wired in an interview. saidthat companies are seen as competitors to humanity in the current artificial intelligence environment and this can harm people.