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Transparency over what goes into developing artificial intelligence systems is crucial, but the push to improve it must be led by regulators, not private companies.
Nick Clegg, head of global affairs at Meta, today made the case for openness as the way forward, arguing in the Financial Times that greater transparency over how AI works “is the best antidote to the fears” surrounding the technology.
Since its launch last November, ChatGPT has captured the public imagination with its ability to quickly respond to users’ questions in a personable way.
The app is an example of generative AI, which produces text or other media in response to prompts.
It was trained in September 2021 by OpenAI on a swathe of internet text, books, articles and websites.
The problem is the company does not share the information on which the chatbot is trained, so there is no way to directly fact-check its responses.
Its peer, Meta, believes the recent decision to make publicly available 22 “system cards” that offer an insight into the AI behind how content is ranked on Facebook and Instagram is a step towards improving transparency.
However, the system cards themselves offer only a superficial view of how Meta’s AI systems are used.
They do not give a comprehensive look at how responsible the processes of designing these systems are.
The cards give an “aerial view,” according to David Leslie, director of ethics and responsible innovation research at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence.
“It…
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