I think you have to at least feedback to satnav companies for it to maybe get better - whether you call that blame or not I dunno. Experienced navigators will report back to mapping agencies with map corrections too.
What i really don’t like about satnavs is that they behave like a navigator, so some people use them as a substitute for one, develop trust, and never learn to develop their own navigation skills.
I can see the same with AI. Not all people have critical thinking like that, some people do trust other people and what they say, and they trust words written like authoritative humans. I wish they wouldn’t , but some do seem to. Plenty of times the assistive tool will have plenty of data and give a decent answer about many things, and so build up trust - especially when they communicate in a convincing human like manner.
You can say that’s the users fault for being too trusting , being stupid ignorant, or naive, maybe it is, maybe it’s nature / nurture / laziness. I just say it’s part of the variety of the species some people think differently, some people are more skeptical, some are more trusting and so on. Trust is a useful thing for social animals to have in many cases - it’d be a nightmare to live without it - but its a vulnerability too.
These AI tools, much like marketing people and con-artists and scammers will end up developing and exploiting trust, by accident or by design or by malice, or just by imitation - and I’d rather they didn’t. Of course that isn’t going to stop them.
I’d just like most of these assistive tools to present their uncertainty better and flag risks better. They seem to just give less info or say less when they’re thin on data, that can be a bit dangerous, if it is thin on data it should be saying “I’m out of my comfort zone here, this is a guess, you need to take charge” . Try to prompt people not to get lazy and to try to do some thinking and observation of their own.
I dunno, hopefully more people will become more skeptical and develop more critical thinking skills. But i’m skeptical of that.
I think you have to at least feedback to satnav companies for it to maybe get better - whether you call that blame or not I dunno. Experienced navigators will report back to mapping agencies with map corrections too.
What i really don’t like about satnavs is that they behave like a navigator, so some people use them as a substitute for one, develop trust, and never learn to develop their own navigation skills.
I can see the same with AI. Not all people have critical thinking like that, some people do trust other people and what they say, and they trust words written like authoritative humans. I wish they wouldn’t , but some do seem to. Plenty of times the assistive tool will have plenty of data and give a decent answer about many things, and so build up trust - especially when they communicate in a convincing human like manner.
You can say that’s the users fault for being too trusting , being stupid ignorant, or naive, maybe it is, maybe it’s nature / nurture / laziness. I just say it’s part of the variety of the species some people think differently, some people are more skeptical, some are more trusting and so on. Trust is a useful thing for social animals to have in many cases - it’d be a nightmare to live without it - but its a vulnerability too.
These AI tools, much like marketing people and con-artists and scammers will end up developing and exploiting trust, by accident or by design or by malice, or just by imitation - and I’d rather they didn’t. Of course that isn’t going to stop them.
I’d just like most of these assistive tools to present their uncertainty better and flag risks better. They seem to just give less info or say less when they’re thin on data, that can be a bit dangerous, if it is thin on data it should be saying “I’m out of my comfort zone here, this is a guess, you need to take charge” . Try to prompt people not to get lazy and to try to do some thinking and observation of their own.
I dunno, hopefully more people will become more skeptical and develop more critical thinking skills. But i’m skeptical of that.