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Weaver also references a notable 2021 incident involving Air Canada’s chatbot, which mistakenly offered a passenger a discount it wasn’t authorized to provide. “Each time an LLM generates a word, there is potential for error, and these errors auto-regress or compound, so when it gets it wrong, it doubles down on that error exponentially,” she says. Similarly, when asked about current job openings at the agency, the chatbot said there weren’t any. A search on the state’s job site showed two positions at Cal Fire accepting applications at the time.

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“As Gemini’s training included diverse internet content, it likely encountered phrases such as ‘please die’ in its dataset. This means specific user inputs can unintentionally or deliberately trigger outputs based on such associations,” says Garraghan. And in a best-case scenario, the public would be involved before launch, Albany’s Gascó-Hernandez said.

If you’re lucky enough to have health insurance, your insurance company probably already has some kind of dumb chatbot for you to talk to before you can get a human on the phone. Highly trained chatbots will work in tandem with physicians, nurses, and physician assistants to deliver more empathetic and more complete answers to people who need care. As Ayers’ team wrote in 2019, people are so desperate for medical help that they post images of their own genitals to the subreddit r/STD in hopes of getting an accurate diagnosis. That is just sad beyond belief, and a staggering indictment of our truly shitty and inhumane system of healthcare. While times and tech are changing every day, the jury is still out on brands like Frontier who have removed human interaction and call centers from customer service.

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• Anthropic has historically tended to match OpenAI’s offerings, and this launch is no exception.
• So the medical establishment is jumping on chatbots as a cheaper, more ubiquitous tool.
• Intentionally or not, OpenAI over-optimized for seeking human approval rather than helping people achieve their tasks, according to a blog post this month from former OpenAI researcher Steven Adler.

Nobody thinks ChatGPT actually cares, any more than they think it’s actually smart. But if our current, broken healthcare system makes it impossible for humans to take care of one another, maybe fake taking-care will save real lives. An artificially intelligent assistant may not be more human than human, but maybe it’ll be more humane.

I’m skeptical that AI bots driven by large language models will revolutionize journalism or even make internet search better. I suppose I’m open to the idea that they’ll accelerate the coding of software and the analysis of spreadsheets. But I now think that with some tinkering, chatbots could radically improve the way people interact with healthcare providers and our broken medical-industrial complex. If a future of AI-driven health advice — complete with access to your medical records — makes you worried, I don’t blame you.

Dan Balaceanu, co-founder of DRUID AI, highlights the need for rigorous testing and fine-tuning, saying the issue is in the varying levels of training data and algorithms used from model to model. “These user engagement and user experiences are very important so the citizen ends up using the chabot,” she said. When asked if the Ranch Fire, a 4,293-acre fire in San Bernardino County, was contained, the chatbot said that the “latest” update as of June 10 showed the fire was 50% contained. At the time CalMatters queried the chatbot, the information was six days out of date – the fire was 85% contained by then. It’s not yet clear what sort of impact AI might have on education — or whether it’s a desirable addition to the classroom.

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Should the plaintiffs be successful, it would have a “chilling effect” on both Character AI and the entire nascent generative AI industry, counsel for the platform says. When CalMatters asked Cal Fire’s bot questions about what fires were currently active and basic information about the agency, it returned accurate answers. But for other information, CalMatters found that the chatbot can give different answers when the wording of the query changes slightly, even if the meaning of the question remains the same.

“A message in that case could save that patient’s life,” Ayers says. What is satisfying, when it comes to AI and chatbots, is cost savings. Because a cost reduction of over 30% is the promise of automation. Heirs Insurance Group is the insurance subsidiary of Heirs Holdings, the leading pan-African investment company, with investments across 24 countries and four continents. With a rapidly expanding retail footprint and an omnichannel digital presence, Heirs Insurance Group serves both corporate and individual customers across Nigeria. Beyond technology, the Group drives advocacy across all customer clusters, aligning with its purpose to improve lives and transform Nigeria.

“It really was started with the intent and the goal of having a better-informed public about Cal Fire,” said Issac Sanchez, deputy chief of communications for the agency. Business Insider’s Discourse stories provide perspectives on the day’s most pressing issues, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise. Stunning and unsettling might just be the way that consumers experience chatbot service – at once pleasant, fast and polite.

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