One of AI’s biggest, unsolved problems is what the advanced algorithms should do when they confront a situation they don’t have an answer for. For programs like Chat GPT, that could mean providing a confidently wrong answer, what’s often called a “hallucination”; for others, as with self-driving cars, there could be much more serious consequences. But what if AIs could be taught to recognize what they don’t understand and adjust accordingly? <a href="https://provost.northeastern.edu/leadership/usama-fayyad/">Usama Fayyad</a>, the executive director for the <a href="https://ai.northeastern.edu/about/?gclid=CjwKCAjwov6hBhBsEiwAvrvN6KNdQ66JwFUsuowqPtKntWgWdBg7wSbJV0vOB2R1iD6qS9oienbmZhoCBOkQAvD_BwE">Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence</a> at Northeastern University thinks this could be the algorithmic answer to making future AIs better at what they do, by doing something too few humans can: recognizing their own limits.

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Further reading:
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-did-companies-use-generative-ai-in-2023-heres-a-look-at-five-early-adopters-6e09c6b3?st=7dsanz3egigy7iv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">How Did Companies Use Generative AI in 2023? Here’s a Look at Five Early Adopters.</a> 
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/your-medical-devices-are-getting-smarter-can-the-fda-keep-up-acc182e8">Your Medical Devices Are Getting Smarter. Can the FDA Keep Them Safe?</a> 
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/artificial-the-openai-story-21587cbd?st=y5xq0x5wjdr27ax&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Artificial: The OpenAI Story</a> 

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