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AI errors: Rajendra Prasad visited Prambanan before Modi
AI chatbots gave inaccurate answers when asked about the first Indian leader to visit Prambanan temple, The Hindu reports. The AI tools said Narendra Modi was the first, but archives show President…
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AI chatbots gave inaccurate answers when asked about the first Indian leader to visit Prambanan temple, The Hindu reports. The AI tools said Narendra Modi was the first, but archives show President Rajendra Prasad visited in 1958. Similarly, AI named Modi as the first Indian PM to visit Palestine (Ramallah, 2018), while Jawaharlal Nehru visited Gaza in 1960. On US senators at Ram temple, AI said there was no record, but a nine-member delegation visited in 1993. The Hindu used its century-old archive to correct these errors, highlighting AI's limited access to historical news.
The Indian Opinion
The Hindu's fact-check is a useful reminder that AI is not omniscient, but it does not prove that AI is worthless. The real problem is that these models rely on publicly available online data and are not trained on digitised newspaper archives. Instead of dismissing AI, we should push for better training data and transparent sourcing. The test for improvement: ask the same questions a year from now. If the models still get them wrong, then we have a real crisis.
Source: thehindu.com
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