Out of curiosity, why has ‘hallucination’ been chosen as the word to describe these errors? It seems more appropriate to describe them as confabulations, but my background is in neuroscience/neurology rather than computer science. I’m sure I’m missing something simple. Grateful for any insights. B…

[image] colin.m.smith115: confabulations I like that. It makes more sense to me to now you point it out.

And here is ChatGPTs thoughts on the topic. Yes, it would be more accurate to say that AI models, especially language models like GPT-4, confabulate rather than hallucinate. Confabulation refers to the generation of plausible-sounding but potentially inaccurate or fabricated information, which is a…

I think your idea here is great, Confabulations are definitely a more accurate term than hallucinations, I think the term hallucinations where chosen because it’s a general, more readily understandable term by must humans. Confabulations are more correct but most people, especially those who are no…

[image] colin.m.smith115: Out of curiosity, why has ‘hallucination’ been chosen as the word to describe these errors? Started running this down in the research papers. At present found this Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation by Ziwei Ji , Nayeon Lee , Rita Frieske , Tiezhen…

Good job searching the litterature! Out of curiosity, can you describe your method for finding that paper? I especially liked this figure in the section about visual hallucinations: [IMG_20230422_155051]

[image] N2U: Out of curiosity, can you describe your method for finding that paper? I can’t remember the exact Google query used but it was like this because the paper was near the top of the list. natural language hallucination ai word origin pdf In earlier research learned of the Wikipe…

This is interesting, based off of the historical context, could the processes that lead to the initial hallucination cases (reporting things that aren’t there in an image, computer vision?) be considered something entirely different than the processes that result in confabulation in LLMs? Would it b…

[image] colin.m.smith115: Would it be useful to separate these terms while we’re trying to understand these errors more deeply? My personal view is no. Both words have an established meaning. Reusing a word with an established meaning and/or adding another meaning to it just compounds the pro…

This is why I love bringing so many different fields of study together. Great collaboration and I just learned something this Saturday morning!

Yeah I agree with Eric on this, i don’t think it makes sense to separate them, but if you can create some demarcation criteria that separates them, I’ll say go for it :laughing:

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paul.armstrong April 22, 2023, 11:21am 2

I like that. It makes more sense to me to now you point it out.

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