Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Some examples
In this example, the speaker said, “as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried….” while the program transcribes that as " It’s fine. It’s just too sensitive to tell. She does die at 65….”
In this example, the speaker said, “and after she got the telephone he began to pray” while the program transcribes that as “I feel like I’m going to fall. I feel like I’m going to fall, I feel like I’m going to fall….”
This one was wild:
In an example they uncovered, a speaker said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella.”
But the transcription software added: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece … I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.”
From picking up and object to mass murder lmao. Not even close!
But it gets the spirit right
/s
Sounds less like transcribing word for word, and more like attempting to summarize and parse meaning on the fly. AIS have notoriously little grasp on reasoning and logic, so it’s interesting how the output holds up in a court of law.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wow, that’s bad. I thought it would be more of a “confusing a sentence for a similar sounding one” type thing but from the above and the article it’s just generating gibberish and sticking them into the transcriptions.
TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It’s actually extremely good at figuring out confusing text. It gets weird when the audio quality is bad.
I use it for generating subs for obscure movies.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No one is good with bad audio. My wife did some transcription work for a little while, it can be pretty painful, especially for doctors, and all the medical terms.