{"id":871011,"date":"2024-10-28T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T03:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=871011"},"modified":"2024-10-28T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T03:49:55","slug":"researchers-say-ai-powered-transcription-tool-used-in-hospitals-invents-things-no-one-ever-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/28\/researchers-say-ai-powered-transcription-tool-used-in-hospitals-invents-things-no-one-ever-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near \u201chuman level robustness and accuracy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text \u2014 known in the industry as hallucinations \u2014 can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near \u201chuman level robustness and accuracy.\u201d But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text \u2014 known in the industry as hallucinations \u2014 can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}