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Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 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 4 months ago

The only thing logic can ever prove is internal consistency, not fact.

Yes, and being able to build structures with internal consistency would be an advantage.

Nobody says you can prevent any "AI" oracle from saying things that aren't true.

But a tool which would generate a tree of possible logical conclusions from something given in language and then divided into statements on objects with statistical dependencies could be useful.