{"id":74852,"date":"2021-04-11T12:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74852"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T16:37:29","slug":"two-examples-of-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/04\/11\/two-examples-of-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Two examples of the pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s of using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Pro:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edscoop.com\/dartmouth-automates-it-help-for-faculty-students-during-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI-powered chatbots automate IT help at Dartmouth<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edscoop.com by Ryan Johnston<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To prevent a backlog of IT requests and consultations during the coronavirus pandemic, Dartmouth College has started relying on AI-powered chatbots to act as an online service desk for students and faculty alike, the school said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Since last fall, the Hanover, New Hampshire, university\u2019s roughly 6,600 students and 900 faculty have been able to consult with \u201cDart\u201d \u2014 the virtual assistant\u2019s name \u2014 to ask IT or service-related questions related to the school\u2019s technology. More than 70% of the time, their question is resolved by the chatbot, said Muddu Sudhakar, the co-founder and CEO of Aisera, the company behind the software.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Con:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/foundations-ai-riddled-errors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Foundations of AI Are Riddled With Errors<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from wired.com by Will Knight<br \/>\n<em>The labels attached to images used to train machine-vision systems are often wrong. That could mean bad decisions by self-driving cars and medical algorithms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWhat this work is telling the world is that you need to clean the errors out,\u201dsays Curtis Northcutt, a PhD student at MIT who led the new work.\u201cOtherwise the models that you think are the best for your real-world business problem could actually be wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro: AI-powered chatbots automate IT help at Dartmouth &#8212; from edscoop.com by Ryan Johnston Excerpt: To prevent a backlog of IT requests and consultations during the coronavirus pandemic, Dartmouth College has started relying on AI-powered chatbots to act as an online service desk for students and faculty alike, the school said Wednesday. 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