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I won't defend the term but am curious what you think would have been also concise but more accurate. Calling them for example "inevitable statistical misdirect

I won't defend the term but am curious what you think would have been also concise but more accurate. Calling them for example "inevitable statistical misdirections" doesn't really roll off the tongue.

malfist 2y ago
It's a bug. Any other system where you put in one input and expect a certain output and get something else it'd be called a bug. Making up new terms for AI doesn't help.
- thomasfromcdnjs 2y ago
  Need not I say different bugs have many names...
- lolinder 2y ago
  I actually disagree with bug for the same reason I disagree with hallucination: it creates the idea that there's an error in processing that needs to be fixed, rather than an inherent characteristic of the computing paradigm that needs to be managed. To be accurate, a term would need to emphasize that it's describing an opinion about the output rather than something that happened inside the program. "Inaccuracies" would be one term that does that fairly well.
goatlover 2y ago
Confabulation, if the desire is to use a more apt psychological analogy.
alan-crowe 2y ago
Statmist