{"id":228254,"date":"2024-06-04T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/people-are-less-likely-to-believe-an-ai-if-it-conveys-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:52","slug":"people-are-less-likely-to-believe-an-ai-if-it-conveys-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/people-are-less-likely-to-believe-an-ai-if-it-conveys-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"People are less likely to believe an AI if it conveys uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/04113355\/SEI_207318483.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2434101 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"portishead1\/Getty Images\" data-caption=\"AI chatbots can answer questions convincingly, but they aren\u2019t always accurate\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">AI chatbots can answer questions convincingly, but they aren\u2019t always accurate<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">portishead1\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>When artificial intelligence models say they are unsure of their answers, people become warier of their output and ultimately more likely to dig out accurate information elsewhere. But since no AI model is currently capable of judging its own accuracy, some researchers question whether making AIs express doubt is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>While the large language models (LLMs) behind chatbots like ChatGPT create impressively believable outputs, it has been shown time and time again that they can simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2433133-can-google-fix-its-disastrous-new-ai-search-tool\/\">make up\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2429701-people-are-less-likely-to-believe-an-ai-if-it-conveys-uncertainty\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] AI chatbots can answer questions convincingly, but they aren\u2019t always accurate portishead1\/Getty Images When artificial intelligence models say they are unsure of their answers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}