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TagHallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs)

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A Lack of Transparency Threatens AI — and the American Economy

Even the Wall Street Journal does not appear to understand the nature of the looming problems
AI software startups should be required to release audited numbers so that we can at least understand the current state of the AI economy. Read More ›
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Case Study: How Not to Sue AI for Libel

I personally favor modernizing the civil laws against libel and defamation to take into account the type of injuries that chatbots can inflict. Read More ›
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Big Tech’s Recent Big Admission: Chatbots Are Not Very Reliable

Here in Part 2, I discuss Stanford prof Jeremy Utley’s hype video in the context of that and other sobering facts
When using chatbots and other GenAI, keep the long-term goals of the developers in mind. Read More ›
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From Data to Thoughts: Why Language Models Hallucinate

The limits of today’s language models and paths to real cognition
We’ll need an architectural approach that can handle propositions—thoughts, judgments, reasoning structures—as first-order objects. Read More ›
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Astrophysicist: Don’t Say That Chatbots “Hallucinate”

Adam Frank points out that human-type “hallucination” is not at all what drives a chatbot to claim that the Russians sent bears into space
Frank, fellow physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson argue in a new book that ignoring explicitly human experience is a blind spot for science Read More ›
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Internet Pollution — If You Tell a Lie Long Enough…

Large Language Models (chatbots) can generate falsehoods faster than humans can correct them. For example, they might say that the Soviets sent bears into space...
Later, Copilot and other LLMs will be trained to say no bears have been sent into space but many thousands of other misstatements will fly under their radar. Read More ›