{"id":177215,"date":"2023-12-01T14:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/when-ai-hallucinates"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:25:03","slug":"when-ai-hallucinates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/when-ai-hallucinates","title":{"rendered":"When AI Hallucinates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-ai-hallucinates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fall, Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s once-(and possibly future-) CEO made a surprising statement about artificial intelligence. AI systems, including that company\u2019s ChatGPT, are known to \u201challucinate\u201d: perceive patterns and generate outputs that are nonsensical. That wasn\u2019t a flaw in AI systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/openais-sam-altman-hallucinations-are-part-of-the-magic-of-generative-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">Altman said<\/a>, it was part of their \u201cmagic.\u201d The fact \u201cthat these AI systems can come up with new ideas and be creative, that\u2019s a lot of the power.\u201d That raised eyebrows: We humans are rather good at creativity without getting our facts all wrong. How could such an appeal to creativity make a decent counter to the many concerns about accuracy?<\/p>\n<p>To begin, what do people mean when they say an AI system \u201challucinates\u201d? Take this example of what happens when GPT4 tries its hand at academic citations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, Sam Altman, OpenAI\u2019s once-(and possibly future-) CEO made a surprising statement about artificial intelligence. AI systems, including that company\u2019s ChatGPT, are known to \u201challucinate\u201d: perceive patterns and generate outputs that are nonsensical. That wasn\u2019t a flaw in AI systems, Altman said, it was part of their \u201cmagic.\u201d The fact \u201cthat these AI systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}