How can artificial intelligence help Wisconsin’s workforce? Lawmakers want to find out

…Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, made a change to its AI chatbot after five states sent a letter claiming it was spreading misinformation about state ballot deadlines.

Now, before listing election-related responses, the chatbot directs users asking election-related questions to Vote.gov.

Inaccuracies is something Belanger recognizes as a risk.

“You are better off supplying it with the facts, the figures, the stats, whatever it is of the project you’re working on, the letter that you need, and then having it generate something based on that than doing it whole cloth. Because it will indeed, make those things up,” said Belanger.

Belanger explains AI can be an extremely useful tool — and points out the human element won’t be going anywhere.

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“As soon as we can sort of approach it from that position where the human remains first and foremost, the arbiter of value, the director of the functionality of the machine, then we’re going to be able to start to see some, maybe more realistic type applications,” said Belanger.

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