{"id":336203,"date":"2025-12-26T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336203\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:14:08","slug":"warning-about-using-ai-for-festive-swim-tide-time-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/336203\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning about using AI for festive swim tide time advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Information on tide times is easily available online &#8211; a search engine will throw up multiple websites all giving the same, correct information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, when the BBC asked ChatGPT the same question as the unlucky visitors, it generated exactly the same, incorrect, response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On another attempt it was out by five hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Open AI, which owns ChatGPT, said improving factual accuracy was a &#8220;significant focus&#8221; for the industry, and new models had significantly fewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/topics\/ai-hallucinations#:~:text=Use%20data%20templates,and%20refine%20the%20system%20continually\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hallucinations, external<\/a> but still occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Steven Schockaert, head of the AI and data analytics research section at Cardiff University&#8217;s school of computer science, said in this instance the problem may lie with how the information is presented online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the issue here is that the tide tables are shown in a table, and the model struggles with extracting the correct value from the table,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Traditionally tables have been quite challenging for language models because they&#8217;ve been trained on language, so words [written] left to right. Tables don&#8217;t have that kind of structure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Information on tide times is easily available online &#8211; a search engine will throw up multiple websites all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-336203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}