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The term “confabulation” is a label for observed actions. You’ve pivoted to a hypothesis about the cause of the behavior in humans, which is likely, to put it
by randallsquared 3y ago
The term “confabulation” is a label for observed actions. You’ve pivoted to a hypothesis about the cause of the behavior in humans, which is likely, to put it mildly, to be different in detail from the cause of the behavior in current-day LLMs, but the behavior itself is still similar enough to share a moniker, in my opinion.
- KaiserPro 3y ago> You’ve pivoted to a hypothesis about the cause of the behavior in humans, Its a psychology, the hypothesis is critical to the diagnosis, thats why several conditions are contested. It requires a lot of subjective analysis to diagnose. For example one difference between false memory and confabulation is dependent on the observer believing that the subject was given a trigger or not. False memories also depend on social cues. similarly the difference between schizophrenia and psychosis is pretty thin, and can depend on whether the person diagnosing you believes there was a trigger, or its "genetic"/long term [1]. Psych is really not a well regulated science, and shouldn't be used to describe anything LLM based. As I've asserted before, its better described as noise, rather than an anthropomorphic label based on suspicious science. [1] as always its a bit more complex. but only a touch.