What AI Can and Can’t Do
AI is very good at some jobs and surprisingly bad at others. Knowing which is which helps you get the best from it, and keeps you safe from its mistakes.
New words
- Hallucination
- A confident answer from AI that is false or made up.
- Bias
- An unfair habit that AI copies from the examples it learned from.
- Training data
- The examples an AI learns from.
- Knowledge cut-off
- The date after which the model has learned nothing new.
- Human in the loop
- A person checks the AI and takes responsibility for big decisions.
- Verify
- Check that something is true, using a source you trust.
What you will learn
- A very helpful, very confident assistant
- What AI is good at
- Limit 1: confident, made-up answers
- Try it: spot the made-up sentence
- More limits to know
- Try it: trust, double-check, or don’t use AI?
- Using AI wisely
- Where you see it every day
- Explain it to a friend
10 quiz questions at the end.
The full lesson, with interactive demos and the quiz, opens after you sign in with Google. It is free.