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It was a mistake to use the term “hallucinate” in AI. It’s a decent metaphor but it’s best to avoid terms prone to anthropomorphism.

LPisGood 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s less “hallucination” and more “confabulation”

	▲	HarHarVeryFunny 9 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's less "confabulation" than "pattern-based statistical prediction"
	▲	astrange 9 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's "hallucination" because we got image generation before text generation, but yes this is a better term.

alan-crowe 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've suggested Runge Spiking as an alternative, non-anthropomorphic metaphor

moate 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was also a mistake calling it "AI".

Should’ve just gone with calling it Al. Seems friendly and you’ll mistake it for actual AI until you look closer

You can call it Betty.

	▲	disgruntledphd2 9 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe only if you're their long last pal though.

nottorp 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> best to avoid terms prone to anthropomorphism

Like "understanding" and "thinking"?

Or "will change everything"?