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‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to you

  • Written by Mayank Kejriwal, Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
‘Probably’ doesn’t mean the same thing to your AI as it does to youAre you sure you and the AI chatbot you're using are on the same page about probabilities?Malte Mueller/fStop via Getty Images

When a human says an event is “probable” or “likely,” people generally have a shared, if fuzzy, understanding of what that means. But when an AI chatbot like ChatGPT uses the same word, it’s...

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