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you stole a term which means something else in an established domain and now assert that the ship has sailed, whereas a perfectly valid term in both domains exi
by baq 2y ago
you stole a term which means something else in an established domain and now assert that the ship has sailed, whereas a perfectly valid term in both domains exists. don't be a lazy smartass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
- nsvd 2y agoThis is exactly how language works; words are adopted across domains and change meaning over time.
- baq 2y agoIf there's any forum which can influence a more correct name for a concept it's this one, so please excuse me while I try to point out that contemporary LLMs confabulate and hallucinating should be reserved for more capable models.
- criddell 2y agoThat's actually what the paper is about. I don't know why they didn't use that in the title. > Here we develop new methods grounded in statistics, proposing entropy-based uncertainty estimators for LLMs to detect a subset of hallucinations—confabulations—which are arbitrary and incorrect generations.