AI – Hallucinations or BS?

We all know someone who lacks the three-word phrase “I don’t know” in their vocabulary. I’ll call him Bob. Bob confidently answers questions with fabrications that can make you question what day it is. After second guessing myself and double checking the facts, I’m able to conclude it’s just Bob BS.

Do Generative AI models hallucinate or BS like Bob?

A new study argues that the perception of AI intelligence is marred by linguistic confusion. While AI, such as ChatGPT, generates impressive text, it lacks true understanding and consciousness.

University of Cincinnati professor Anthony Chemero contends that AI cannot be intelligent in the way that humans are, even though “it can lie and BS like its maker.”

While Generative AI technology like ChatGPT is breathtakingly amazing, we need to be confident we are not talking to Bob. Although Bob is very smart, I would want his advice on life threatening medical decisions.

More from the builders of AI.

“I don’t think that there’s any model today that doesn’t suffer from some hallucination,” said Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude 2.

“They’re really just sort of designed to predict the next word,” Amodei said. “And so there will be some rate at which the model does that inaccurately.”