Last Week Tonight: Artificial Intelligence

Bard

Google Bard is an AI-powered chatbot tool designed by Google to simulate human conversations using natural language processing and machine learning.

ethical

Having to do with morals, values, right and wrong

AI "hallucinating"

Learning programs confidently spouting false information.

deep fake

Machine learning technology that manipulates or fabricates audio and/or video recordings to show people doing or saying things that they never did or said.

cesspool

a covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house

by default

automatically

scrutiny

critical observation or examination

white-collar jobs

jobs in fields not requiring work clothes or protective clothing, such as sales

blue-collar jobs

jobs that require physical labor in industry

Obsolete

out-of-date, no longer in use

bias

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

peril

serious and immediate danger

Plagiarism

taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

The black box problem

the inability for us to see how deep learning systems make their decisions

transparency

the presentation of a company's facts and figures in a way that is clear and apparent to all.

malignant

(adj.) deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful, malicious

Apocalypse

(n.) - total devastation, the end of the world

Algorithm

A precise sequence of instructions for processes that can be executed by a computer

deep learning

A type of machine learning that uses multiple layers of interconnections among data to identify patterns and improve predicted results.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022.