Advice and assistance with homework at school, support in preparing presentations and writing texts: the use of artificial intelligence is becoming suitable for everyday use. But is the data correct? Martina Gaisch, professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, warns against a “false” reality.
What can artificial intelligence do and what can’t it do? Martina Gaisch is intensively involved with this question. The head of the course ‘Design of Digital Products’ on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg also often checks whether what the system spits out is correct or not.
Human qualities count
“The most important thing is simply contextual knowledge and evaluation skills – these are deeply human qualities,” says Gaisch. The 55-year-old sees herself in the role of refiner when she uses digitalization tools to create presentations: “For me, AI is a sensational personalized learning assistant. I get creative input.”
Although some have already recognized that digital tools are not perfect and often hallucinate, as Gaisch puts it, there are people who trust them completely. The professor calls this group of people ‘unreflective’ and speaks of automation bias.
The systems are often trusted without reservation
What does that mean? Too much trust in the systems: “In tennis, in the past, you had the linesman with whom you argued about decisions. Nowadays, the task is taken over by AI, which makes a lot of mistakes, but people believe it.”
Artificial intelligence is only as good as the data it is trained on. And this training is done by humans: “AI is simply a mirror of our society; it is neither objective nor neutral.”
Gaisch points out that it is mainly men who feed the systems with data. The result: “Often statements are made that ignore reality. This is how stereotypes are reproduced.” Their demand: more diversity is needed here.
Source: Krone
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