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Re:One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years by koliber on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:31AM (#39581031)
Coming up with a plausible but incorrect theory of how something works is not hallucination. Hallucination is seeing something that is not there.

In terms of LLMs, they don’t come up with with any original theories. When they hallucinate, they make things up that are easily shown to be untrue using current and present methods.

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Re:One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years by visarga on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:46AM (#39581129)
There is no difference between real understanding and integrating feedback into a hallucinating model. We're adjusting based on feedback to reign hallucination in.
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Re:One of Science's Biggest Errors Persisted for 1,500 Years by marketneutral on Sunday March 03, 2024 @09:49AM (#39581153)
A and B are not the same thing if they can sometimes generate the same output to a particular query.
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