- Published on January 15, 2024
- In AI Features
This USC Professor from Kolkata is on a Journey to Civilise AI
Amitava Das has been working in NLP for over 20 years and is currently hell-bent on reducing hallucinations within LLMs.
- By Mohit Pandey
The present-day AI system is smitten with hallucinations – for some, it is a feature (and not a bug), and for others, it's frustration. For Amitava Das, a professor at the University of Southern Carolina, it was a worry that lead to the creation of what he calls ‘Civilising AI or Constitutional AI’.
“AIs [LLMs] are very smart and at the same time, they are also stupid. And we do not know how to handle these in either case. On the other hand, AI-generated content becomes so eloquent that it is impossible to detect it. No Turing test is able to do it,” said Das, in an interview with AIM, sharing the origin of Civilised AI, a framework to proactively measure the hallucination of a model, alongside mitigating and managing risks associated with it.
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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