Deadline\u2019s<\/a> recap, Atwood said she\u2019d used an AI chatbot exactly once, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, and came away unimpressed. She was looking for information about the British detective series Father Brown and, well:<\/p>\n\u201dClaude gave me the wrong answer, or it lied. Of course, it didn\u2019t know it was lying because it\u2019s not a human being; it\u2019s a large language model… It had skimmed and sampled a lot of television reviews, but they never give away the ending in online criticism, so it was misled by the things it had read about the show.\u201d<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t have particularly kind words for the people who rely on AI either, calling them \u201copportunists\u201d looking for the easy way out. But of course, as she pointed out, all LLMs are only as good as the data they\u2019re fed, and putting your faith in a machine trained on scraped, previously published, and possibly out-of-date information isn\u2019t the best idea.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuman beings are not robots, but they are opportunists, so if there\u2019s an easy way to cheat and it\u2019s hard to detect, people will do it… But the thing about AI is that it\u2019s garbage in, garbage out. Even people who use it for business reasons have to check it because it makes mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maraget Atwood, the storied author of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,288,93,61,60,43,80],"class_list":["post-521858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}