AI is NOT Perfect!

With the arrival of the World Wide Web, people could look things up online and they would treat them as if they were facts found in an encyclopedia! If it was right there on the web, it had to be true!

We all know that we need to be more cautious than this, trust but verify as they say, and AI, no matter what flavor you’re using, is NO exception!

Simple things like researching the end-of-life date for a Microsoft product can return the wrong date info; and that was using Copilot. An attorney who took his case citings from AI and didn’t check the results found out all the citings were fake! The judge was furious.

Larry offered to put together our Gadget of the Month and asked AI to find the last time he did that kind of thing for me. He got back a wonderful article referencing all kinds of things on our website and things we’ve posted, but nothing like our Gadget of the month, and certainly no previous example! When challenged, AI admitted it didn’t have the right answer so it did some research and presented something else!

More recently, a client asked AI for help with a computer, and the information was WRONG causing a lot of headaches. AI is a tool that needs to be vetted like anything else you rely on. If you want legal expertise, do your research then go to your attorney. If you want tax expertise, do your research and go to your CPA. If you need help with the computers, do your research, then call us BEFORE you take next steps! –CMW