LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. To err is no longer the exclusive province of humans. Apologies to Alexander Pope. Artificial intelligence has progressed from hallucinating to enticing humans to join in the hallucination. We need a new term for hybrid human-AI errors caused by reliance on AI hallucinations. I propose “mistaiks.” Read the […]

AI By Michael A. Covington Malfunctioning AI can hurt people. Preventing harm isn’t easy. To detect automatically whether an AI system is giving people bad advice, for instance, you’d need an AI that is smarter than the original one; and if you had it, you’d have used it in the first place. You see the […]

TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley We now know that 59 percent of AskWoody’s readers have at least tried interacting with an AI assistant and that only 24 percent use it regularly. We understand the hesitation that those statistics imply. Nonetheless, it’s clear that people in our audience and beyond are using the latest AI […]

When dealing with AI, we are still working with very young technology and one that is often wrong. Case in point, and this is in my own back yard (so to speak): Aleshire & Wynder, LLP, a law firm representing the City of Fresno in an ongoing eminent domain lawsuit, faces a possible $10,000 fine […]

AI By Michael A. Covington We are never going to live in a world in which generative AI hasn’t been invented. People will have to get used to it, and the big thing to get used to will not be its computational power and usefulness, but rather the ability to communicate with computers in human […]

You may have seen the news: a UK Police briefing used results from a Copilot session, which made up (aka hallucinated) a football match. This football match did not exist, and it led to inappropriate police behavior and a bogus analysis. UK heads are likely to roll. Microsoft is now stating that it is unable […]