AI chatbots need some healthy disagreement to work best together, tech exec says
Technology tamfitronics It might seem counterintuitive, but for AI assistants to work well together, they can’t always get along with one another, according to Babak Hodjat, chief technology officer of AI at Cognizant.The next phase of the technology, according to Hodjat, will be a world in which various AI assistants, each an expert in their own area, will work together to help people with everyday questions, Hodjat said during a live interview at the Fortune COO Summit. (Disclosure: Cognizant sponsored the conference in Middleburg, Va., last week, and received coverage as part of its sponsorship agreement.)But if each of those assistants turns into a yes-man, then users run the risk of getting bad information because consensus will be reached too quickly. That’s the current reality of AI chatbots.“They’re too agreeable,” said Hodjat, who invented the...
