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I believe in dead salmon, they do.
by ggm 11mo ago
I believe in dead salmon, they do.
- lgas 11mo agoThey cause hallucinations in dead salmon? I find that hard to believe.
- furyofantares 11mo agoLoss of consciousness seems equally unlikely.
- lgas 11mo agoTrue, though an easier mistake to make, I imagine.
- ggm 11mo agohttps://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ignobel-prize-in-neuroscience-the-dead-salmon-study/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign...
- lgas 11mo agoI'm not 100% sure I'd call that a hallucination, but it's close enough and interesting enough that I'm happy to stand corrected.
- bitwize 11mo agoWhen improper use of a statistical model generates bogus inferences in generative AI, we call the result a "hallucination"...
- baq 11mo agoIt should have been called confabulation, hallucination is not the correct analog, tech bros simply used the first word they thought of and it unfortunately stuck.
- K0balt 11mo agoUndesirable output might be more accurate, since there is absolutely no difference in the process of creating a useful output vs a “hallucination” other than the utility of the resulting data. I had a partially formed insight along these lines, that LLMs exist in this latent space of information that has so little external grounding. A sort of deeamspace. I wonder if embodying them in robots will anchor them to some kind of ground-truth source?
- lgas 11mo agoI was referring to the dead salmon in the study seeming to show increased activation in the brain and spinal coord.
- exe34 11mo agoThank you for the giggle, I misread this as a statement of faith and a non-sequitur.
- moffkalast 11mo agoI had an fMRI and also believe in dead salmon now, it's a common side effect but it's worth it for the diagnostic data they get.
- oniony 11mo agoYeah, really needed the comma on the left side of the parenthesis.