From Julia Stavenhagen, Hammond, Oregon, US
I was completely prepared to hate Jacob Aron’s column about AI, since I have been dismally disappointed by the motivations of the companies that have trained models like ChatGPT with distressing biases towards “popular” answers that may decrease their accuracy. Aron clearly explained why AI models do this, and how he was able to focus his AI on creating useful tools using simple instructions to the model to return only factual information. Now, if only we could instruct the data centres not to use any water or create heat islands (14 March, p 19).
