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Hallucinates is a misnomer when used with LLMs. The more precise word, if we use neurology terms for LLM processes, is confabulate.
by oidar 3y ago
Hallucinates is a misnomer when used with LLMs. The more precise word, if we use neurology terms for LLM processes, is confabulate.
- gattilorenz 3y agoI consider the idea of naming a whole field “artificial intelligence” unfortunate. Many people think, because of the name, that artificial neurons are not just inspired by real ones, but are a perfect digital model of them. We don’t need to add more confusion by misappropriating terms from other sciences (to be honest, “hallucinate” is also not great by this rule).
- wlonkly 3y agoI like calling it "bullshitting", because the art of bullshitting isn't about lying, it's about not caring whether or not things are true if they can make a good story. (But seriously, "confabulate" is much better. The thing I don't like about "hallucinate" is that it gets the agency wrong. Hallucinations are something that happens TO people, that they recover from.)
- gremlinsinc 3y agoHallucinations are also something very personal and internal, not something you can really share with another other than a description. chatGPT is like a subordinate afraid of looking bad or being chastised for not knowing something it tells you what it thinks you want to hear. bullshitting is what I call this too. If you use retrospection, and tell it to only give answers that are vetted or true or that it should retrospect on the validity of an answer because they could be true but only in so much as the LLMs cut-off date, for instance using outdated docs. i personally think everyone working on ai should band together and create an open source framework or tool that's essentially an LLM verification API to verify truthyness.