From the course: How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools

Taking responsibility for the output of AI

From the course: How to Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools

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Taking responsibility for the output of AI

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Now, I can't guarantee that generative AI tools will give you an accurate answer. Just as I can't guarantee that Robot in customer services will give an accurate answer. Robot, I'm sure this camera that I'm using, it wasn't working properly. But who's responsible for the accuracy of the answers you get from an AI assistant? I believe it's the person who's using it, which in this case is you. That means you shouldn't use anything the AI has generated until you've checked it. At the time of filming, generative AIs are rapidly improving, but they still hallucinate. And hallucinate is the term we use for them just making stuff up. Which, funnily enough, is a very human trait. You're more likely to get AI hallucinations if you write prompts that don't have sufficient information in them because the AIs will fill those gaps with information that isn't always true. In the case of ChatGPT, it's not currently connected to the Internet as I'm filming this, is currently using information that's over 18 months out of date. Now, this may have changed by the time you watch this video, but at the moment it means that if you ask about something that it doesn't know much about, it might just make up an incorrect answer with complete confidence. Just like Robot in customer services. And if you ask it for sources to back up its answer, it tends to give you things that look like sources but are in fact entirely fictional. We can write prompts that reduce these effects, but we can't guarantee that we're going to eliminate them. So remember that AI tools are tools, and that means that the ultimate responsibility is on the person using them. So as you experiment with AI, always remember to double check the information it generates and use your own judgment to ensure accuracy, because any inaccuracies that make it into your work are on you.

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