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Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by thearch to c/[email protected]

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Meta "programmed it to simply not answer questions," but it did anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's like saying car crash is just a fancy word for accident, or cat is just a fancy term for animal.

Hallucination is a technical term for this type of AI, and it's inherent to how it works at it's core.

And now I'll let you get back to your hating.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Hallucination is also wildly misleading. The AI does not believe something that isn't real, it was incorrect in the words it guessed would be appropriate.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

The funny thing is we hallucinate all our answers too. I don't know where these words are coming from and I am not reasoning about them other than construction of a grammatically correct sentence. Why did I type this? I don't have a fucking clue. 😂

We map our meanings onto whatever words we see fit. If I had a dollar for every time I've heard a Republican call Obama a Marxist still blows my mind.

Thank you for saying something too. Better than I could do. I've been thinking about AI since I was a little kid. I've watched it go from at best some heuristic pathfinding in video games all the way to what we have now. Most people just weren't ever paying attention. It's been incredible to see that any of this was even possible.

I watched Two Minute Papers from back when he was mostly doing light transport simulation (raytracing). It's incredible where we are, but baffling people can't see the tech as separate from good old capitalism and the owner class. It just so happens it takes a fuckton of money to build stuff like this, especially at first. This is super early.