When prosthetics
is transcribed as
prostitutes, you
know we are still
early and
have a long journey ahead.

Earlier this week, I was in a call with a charity that refurbishes used prosthetic legs and send them to a country in Africa to help people there who have lost limbs unlock mobility. They do impressive work, and we decided to direct part of our fundraising to their organisation. You can see a video of what they do in the Poésie de la vie section below.

What was a bit distraction during the call, was the transcription provided by the video call tool. This tool uses AI to convert what is being said into text. A very useful tool, if it works well. This one clearly has a way to go to become reliably useful, as some of the conversions were still very, well, wrong. Some were comical, and others were troubling. When prosthetics is consistently transcribed as prostitutes, we can conclude that this tool is proving it can be useful, but needs to improve its accuracy.

AI has proved how useful it can be, but we still need to adapt. Whether it are misinterpretations in transcriptions, hallucinations, or overvaluations of misinformation, AI still needs us very much to verify whether what has been produces is actually useable. This, I believe, underscores the need for learning methodology of not only how AI works and is trained, but also of how to do what you want the AI to do. And a thorough subject matter knowledge to spot the hallucinations.

We are on our way, but not there yet.

What's the funniest hallucination AI has presented you?

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Arjan Tupan is writing poetry, podcasting and incubating empathy

Entrepreneur, dad, European, story teller, poet. Curious, too. I tell stories on different platform and using a variety of tools. Sometimes I explain how I do stuff.Most of my content is free of charg

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Watch the story of Lamin, a welder who could continue his work thanks to a donated prosthetic leg.

When prosthetics
is transcribed as
prostitutes, you
know we are still
early and
have a long journey ahead.

Earlier this week, I was in a call with a charity that refurbishes used prosthetic legs and send them to a country in Africa to help people there who have lost limbs unlock mobility. They do impressive work, and we decided to direct part of our fundraising to their organisation. You can see a video of what they do in the Poésie de la vie section below.

What was a bit distraction during the call, was the transcription provided by the video call tool. This tool uses AI to convert what is being said into text. A very useful tool, if it works well. This one clearly has a way to go to become reliably useful, as some of the conversions were still very, well, wrong. Some were comical, and others were troubling. When prosthetics is consistently transcribed as prostitutes, we can conclude that this tool is proving it can be useful, but needs to improve its accuracy.

AI has proved how useful it can be, but we still need to adapt. Whether it are misinterpretations in transcriptions, hallucinations, or overvaluations of misinformation, AI still needs us very much to verify whether what has been produces is actually useable. This, I believe, underscores the need for learning methodology of not only how AI works and is trained, but also of how to do what you want the AI to do. And a thorough subject matter knowledge to spot the hallucinations.

We are on our way, but not there yet.

What's the funniest hallucination AI has presented you?

I could use your help. If you like this newsletter, please consider buying me a coffee, or support me with a monthly subscription fee. This newsletter will stay free regardless, but any support is welcome and loved.

Arjan Tupan is writing poetry, podcasting and incubating empathy

Entrepreneur, dad, European, story teller, poet. Curious, too. I tell stories on different platform and using a variety of tools. Sometimes I explain how I do stuff.Most of my content is free of charg

https://buymeacoffee.com

Subscribe to Trpplr on Hypersub

Trpplrs are sending ripples of poetry through the world, to make it more fun. As a Trpplr, you will get: & special poetry drops from me and up-and-comin...

https://hypersub.xyz

Watch the story of Lamin, a welder who could continue his work thanks to a donated prosthetic leg.