The Unpredictability and Unexplainability of AI

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This chapter delves into the unsettling nature of AI systems like GPT-4 and the challenges they pose for companies like OpenAI. It explores the difficulty of deciphering and explaining these systems, highlighting the trade-off between rapid improvement and unexplainability.

The researchers who create and study tech like ChatGPT don’t understand exactly how it’s doing what it does. This is the first episode of “The Black Box,” a two-part series from Unexplainable.

This episode was reported and produced by Noam Hassenfeld, edited by Brian Resnick and Katherine Wells with help from Byrd Pinkerton and Meradith Hoddinott, and fact-checked by Serena Solin, Tien Nguyen, and Mandy Nguyen. It was mixed and sound designed by Cristian Ayala with music by Noam Hassenfeld.

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