Everywhere we turn, we are reminded of the rapid advances that artificial intelligence (AI) is making. As the technology continues to evolve, it raises an important question: Can we really trust it?<\/p>\n
Trusting AI can mean many things \u2014 from letting it recommend a TV show to watch to relying on it for medical advice<\/a> or putting it in charge of your car<\/a>. On Aug. 29 we shared a poll asking Live Science readers where they stand on AI’s trustworthiness \u2014 and 382 people responded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the time of writing, the results show that only 13% believe they can trust AI and that it will improve their lives, while 55% expressed no trust in AI to act safely or fairly. Around 32% were unsure and wanted stronger safeguards before making up their mind.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n User comments suggested that readers are cautious about AI and expressed concerns about accuracy, autonomy and the limitations of the current technology. “Artificial general intelligence is still a work of fiction and always will be – nothing that Sam Altman [CEO of OpenAI] or any of the LLM shills have to say will ever change that,” wrote BeneathTheClay<\/a>.<\/p>\n Some commenters highlighted what they believe are LLMs’ limitations.<\/p>\n “We don\u2019t trust [large language models] LLMs, nor do we think the fundamental technology can ever become an ‘AI’ to any degree whatsoever,” Varian<\/a> commented. They added that”the fundamental truth is that LLMs have no concept of time, past, present, or future. A request is processed, the process is handled, and further requests can have previous requests force-fed back to it until it runs out of available ram. That\u2019s the [entirety] of it.”<\/p>\n Others suggested that LLMS are unlikely to ever be fully intelligent.<\/p>\n “AI is just about automation, the knowledge humans have acquired so far stored in computers is automatically retrieved on our request. I see no intelligence in AI,” Jose p.koshy<\/a> said. “We can trust it as long as our request to AI is unambiguous and pertains to data only. We cannot leave the decision making process to AI.”<\/p>\n Some readers took a more philosophical look at the rapid growth of AI and LLMs.<\/p>\n