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The title is misleading. This isn't the correct use of the term "hallucination". Hallucination refers to making up facts, not extrapolating into the future. I

by fn-mote 11mo ago

The title is misleading. This isn't the correct use of the term "hallucination". Hallucination refers to making up facts, not extrapolating into the future. I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination).

rrr_oh_man 11mo ago
Don’t LLMs only ever hallucinate?
adastra22 11mo ago
There is no technical difference.
- isolli 11mo ago
  There is a semantic one.
hombre_fatal 11mo ago
Extrapolation is a subset of hallucination. The ubiquitous use of hallucination I see is merely "something the LLM made up".
madeofpalk 11mo ago
It’s apt, because the only thing LLMs is hallucinate because they have no grounding in reality. They take your input and hallucinate to do something “useful” with it.
jrm4 11mo ago
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alexwebb2 11mo ago
You're correct, OP used the word "hallucination" wrong. A lot of these other comments are missing the point – some deliberately ('don't they ONLY hallucinate, har har'), some not. For those who genuinely don't know – hallucination specifically means false positive identification of a fact or inference (accurate or not!) that isn't supported by the LLM's inputs. - ask for capital of France, get "London" => hallucination - ask for current weather in London, get "It's cold and rainy!" and that happens to be correct, despite not having live weather data => hallucination - ask for capital of DoesNotExistLand, get "DoesNotExistCity" => hallucination - ask it to give its best GUESS for the current weather in London, it guess "cold and rainy" => not a hallucination
oriettaxx 11mo ago
> I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination). omg, the same for me, I was half way telling my colleague about the 100% rest kernel ...
- isolli 11mo ago
  Ha ha! But yes, I was confused too, especially since the title says "10 years from now"... not specifying in which direction.

by fn-mote 11mo ago

rrr_oh_man 11mo ago

Don’t LLMs only ever hallucinate?

adastra22 11mo ago

There is no technical difference.

isolli 11mo ago
There is a semantic one.

hombre_fatal 11mo ago

Extrapolation is a subset of hallucination. The ubiquitous use of hallucination I see is merely "something the LLM made up".

madeofpalk 11mo ago

It’s apt, because the only thing LLMs is hallucinate because they have no grounding in reality. They take your input and hallucinate to do something “useful” with it.

jrm4 11mo ago

[flagged]

alexwebb2 11mo ago

You're correct, OP used the word "hallucination" wrong. A lot of these other comments are missing the point – some deliberately ('don't they ONLY hallucinate, har har'), some not. For those who genuinely don't know – hallucination specifically means false positive identification of a fact or inference (accurate or not!) that isn't supported by the LLM's inputs. - ask for capital of France, get "London" => hallucination - ask for current weather in London, get "It's cold and rainy!" and that happens to be correct, despite not having live weather data => hallucination - ask for capital of DoesNotExistLand, get "DoesNotExistCity" => hallucination - ask it to give its best GUESS for the current weather in London, it guess "cold and rainy" => not a hallucination

oriettaxx 11mo ago

> I read 10 comments before I realized that this was referring to 10 years in the FUTURE and not in the PAST (as would be required for it to be a hallucination). omg, the same for me, I was half way telling my colleague about the 100% rest kernel ...

isolli 11mo ago
Ha ha! But yes, I was confused too, especially since the title says "10 years from now"... not specifying in which direction.