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Authors Guild provides its members numerous opportunities to advance our craft. A couple of years ago, AG asked its members to specify how much future involvement we anticipated having with Artificial Intelligence. I naively declared that I would have no involvement at all, and I still intend to avoid using AI assistance in my writing. But I find that right from the get go, I routinely involve Google AI in my research of various subjects, some of which relate to writing topics. I recognize that while Google AI seems to accurately answer most of my questions, occasionally it does not. And, being a curious individual, I ask a lot of questions.
I recently asked Google AI to confirm that there is a need for a fleet of US battleships to be built by South Korea. When I disputed Google AI’s initial response that there is indeed a need for battleships, I noted that my historical reading has taught me that battleships are obsolete and unnecessary for the US Navy, and have been so since the Second World War which concluded some 80 years ago. Experts acknowledge that the Aircraft Carrier played a much bigger role in winning that war than did the battleship.
Google AI responded using what I consider to be a weasel word that the term “battleship” had been used “colloquially.” I had never heard of such use for the word “battleship,” and so informed Google AI, and eventually Google AI admitted that the ships that were intending to be built would be, in fact, destroyers, not battleships. Aha!
AI learns, at least in part, from reading what is already published. There is a lot of published crap out there that is just flat wrong. Occasionally, a response from Google AI is “wrong” or misleading. As a result, I am now on a personal crusade to hold Google AI accountable for improving the degree of accuracy and specificity found in its answers.
If AI is going to rule the world of the future, then it needs to be as accurate as possible, and each and every one of us needs to assist in making it so. Right?
Admittedly, I am neither an expert on AI, nor on the effectiveness of US Navy combat vessels, but I am a patriotic American who wants to see America’s leaders base policy and strategic decisions on fact.