ChatGPT, Hallucinations and Plugins
I was amused to find yet another thing ChatGPT can do. One guy asked the tool to identify the author of an article based on its first 4 paragraphs. ChatGPT correctly identified the author! (The author in question, Ben Thompson, publishes on the Net, so the dataset to compare against was large enough). ChatGPT then explained how it had arrived at the answer. Read the entire explanation here (it’s quite short)– it sounds exactly the way a human would reason. Scary? Impressive? Both? ChatGPT, like all AI’s, builds its own models, writes Ben Thompson . And like humans, its model can be wrong. But it can’t realize that. There’s even a technical term for it – hallucination : “In artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also occasionally called delusion) is a confident response by an AI that does not seem to be justified by its training data. For example, a hallucinating chatbot with no knowledge of Tesla’s revenue might internally p...