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I believe a more accurate term would be AI confabulation. When one confabulates, one shamelessly inserts words which sound smooth and grammatical and potential
by throwaway849755 3y ago
I believe a more accurate term would be AI confabulation.
When one confabulates, one shamelessly inserts words which sound smooth and grammatical and potentially acceptable to a listener (and the speaker), but shamelessly with no hesitation or corrections to achieve actual truth.
I suspect there needs to be some layering on of reflection and inhibition to avoid this.
- cratermoon 3y agoYes, 100% agree. See <https://universeodon.com/@siderea/109883198218504351 https://universeodon.com/@siderea/109883198218504351> for some thoughts. I think we're stuck with the term 'hallucination' in most usage, if for no other reason than cognitive sloth.
- throwaway849755 3y agoGood link. And perhaps to be even less misleading above, LLM Confabulation. As another comment says, not fixable within the LLM.
- TillE 3y agoBoth are anthropomorphizations, implying some kind of "thought" process which doesn't exist. The generated text is wrong, false, inaccurate. I don't think we really need a jargon-y term for it.
- throwaway849755 3y agoPerhaps with both 'hallucination' and 'confabulation' there are suggestions of both thought and absence of thought. The former suggestions are likely anthropomorphic. Suggesting some seamless lack of thought might not be?
- aatd86 3y agoRandom but just spent an unnecessary amount of time debating with a confabulator at the gym today. At least the day wasn't all lost. Learnt a new word.