ben townsend

Certain types of AI struggle to adjust to unexpected change. An investigation in Nature notes that many scientists view AI systems as “fundamentally brittle,” describing them as “brilliant at what they do until, taken into unfamiliar territory, they break in unpredictable ways.” While the technology may someday reach a point where it can seamlessly incorporate sudden deviations from its baseline assumptions, most AI models are not there yet. The reality is that pattern recognition is not the same as understanding, which has important implications for business investment.

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