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Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers
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AI doesn’t hallucinate. It’s a fancy marketing term for when AI confidently does something in error.
The tech billionaires would have a harder time getting the mass amounts of people that don’t understand interested if they didn’t use words like hallucinate.
It’s a data center, not a psychiatric patient
How can the AI be confident?
We anthropomorphize the behaviors of these technologies to analogize their outputs to other phenomena observed in humans. In many cases, the analogy helps people decide how to respond to the technology itself, and that class of error.
Describing things in terms of "hallucinations" tell users that the output shouldn't always be trusted, regardless of how "confident" the technology seems.
Humans will anthropomorphize damn near anything. We'll say shit like "hydrogen atoms want to be with oxygen so bad they get super excited and move around a lot when they get to bond". I don't think characterizing the language output of an LLM using terms that describe how people speak is a bad thing.
"Hallucination" on the other hand is not even close to describing the "incorrect" bullshit that comes out of LLMs as opposed to the "correct" bullshit. The source of using "hallucination" to describe the output of deep neural networks kind of started with these early image generators. Everything it output was a hallucination, but eventually these networks got so believable that sometimes they could output realistic, and even sometimes factually accurate, content. So the people who wanted these neural nets to be AI would start to only call the bad and unbelievable and false outputs as hallucinations. It's not just anthropomorphizing it, but implying that it actually does something like thinking and has a state of mind.