Le brouillard d'analyse d'intelligence d'Apple peut être résolu de trois façons - Jason Sne

Writing at Six Colors, the head of technical writing Jason Snell thinks that Apple's plan to address the problems with artificial intelligence summaries does not go far enough and has three suggestions for the company.

The post follows a series of embarrassing errors in attempts to summarize news stories, which have varied in claiming that Luigi Mangione shot himself, announced the winner of a competition that had never taken place, and reported the non-existent unveiling of a tennis player...

Noise in Apple's AI Summaries

The new feature draws attention for its own lack of ability to analyze titles a month ago.

The BBC is not satisfied with Apple Intelligence's summary notification functionality. The company claims that this function generated a misleading title about Luigi Mangione, who was arrested this week as a suspect in the murder of United HealthGroup CEO. The question summary falsely suggests that Mangione shot himself.

Other examples include:

An Apple news summary falsely claimed that darts player Luke Littler had won the PDC World Championship – before he even played in the final. The incorrect summary was written by artificial intelligence (AI) and is based on a BBC story according to which Littler won the semi-final of the competition last Wednesday evening.

In hours, another AI notification summary tricked some users of the BBC Sport app by telling them that famous tennis player Rafael Nadal had been eliminated from the tournament.

Apple first remained silent before later emphasizing that it is a beta function and promising to improve the labeling of summaries generated by artificial intelligence.

Apple's Intelligence features are in beta, and we continue to make improvements with user feedback. A software update in weeks to come will clarify further when the displayed text is provided by Apple Intelligence.

Three Recommendations from Snell

In his article, Snell argues that Apple's proposed approach does not go far enough and that the excuse of beta is not sufficient.

It is difficult to accept "it's in beta" as an excuse when features are delivered in non-beta updates that are strongly promoted to the public as highlights of the latest Apple hardware […] Apple delivers a feature that frequently rewrites titles to be false. This is a failure, and it should not be overlooked under the pretext that this is the nature of system features in the 2020s.

The full text of Snell offers several solutions to the problem, which you can read on Six Colors.

This is a good stance. In particular, allowing app developers to choose not to participate would be a win-win. This means that organizations like the BBC could simply say 'No thank you, we do not want to be involuntary beta participants for your program, thank you.' And because developers can do this, it would give them something akin to a court order from Apple, as they can claim that it is up to developers to decide whether or not they want to take these types of risks.

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