[INDOLOGY] AI hallucinations

[Eli Franco]

Also of interest is James Gleick’s The Parrot in the Machine, New York  
Review of Books, July 24, 2025.
Incidentally, and unrelatedly, the same issue contains a heartbreaking  
report by David Shulman on the current situation in the West Bank.

Shana Tova!
Eli

Zitat von Mauricio Najarro via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:

> Just in case people find it useful, here’s an important and  
> well-known critique of LLMs from people currently working and  
> thinking carefully about all this:  
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
>
> Mauricio
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 21, 2025, at 11:47 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY  
>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Csaba Dezso wrote:
>>
>>> My question to the AI savvies among us would be: is confabulation  
>>> / hallucination an integral and therefore essentially ineliminable  
>>> feature of LLM?
>>
>> I have an extremely limited knowledge and experience  of AI but my  
>> understanding of LLM's is that they work by choosing the next most  
>> statistically  likely word in their answer (again I'm not exactly  
>> clear how they determine that),  So there answers aren't based on  
>> any kind of reasoning.
>> Harry Spier
>>
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