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When a human reads a bunch of stuff on the internet and regurgitates it as fact, we don't say they hallucinate, we say that they're wrong. Why we baby AI on th

• Avshalom 3y ago
  Because if "AI" is constantly "wrong" or "lying" it'd be bad for the businesses trying to sell it. So there's this marketing push to frame that recognition of constant obvious failure as anthropomorphizing the AI. Hallucinating on the other hand feels way more abstract. We speak of humans hallucinating answers rarely enough that they can use it for AI with a straight face. Heck, when we do talk about humans hallucinating it's often-as-not in the context of mind expanding experiences; maybe AI hallucinations are even a good thing!
  • happytiger 3y ago
    We actually have a core personality characteristic in human psychology for just this thing: neuroticism. It may be part of complex networks and intelligence, and humans may have a lot of it happening all the time but have ways of compensation or suppression of neurotic or hallucinating thoughts. We have some intense “mental illnesses” that look a lot like what AI is presenting, where it can’t tell what is going on and fills in the gaps (schizophrenia maybe) or uses behavioral patterns to compensate for memory or intelligence inadequacy. Obviously straight conjecturing here.