In high-stakes situations like health care—or weeknight “Jeopardy!”—it can be safer to say “I don’t know” than to answer incorrectly. Doctors, game show contestants, and standardized test-takers understand this, but most artificial intelligence applications still prefer to give a potentially wrong answer rather than admit uncertainty.
New method can teach AI to admit uncertainty
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