Did you know that ChatGPT can have “Hallucinations”?
The artificial intelligence (AI) system, Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT), is considered a revolutionary tool in education, research, and entertainment. Chatbots like ChatGPT are driven by a technology called a large language model, or LLM. LLMs learn by analyzing enormous amounts of digital text, including books, Wikipedia articles and online chat logs. It pinpoints patterns in data and learns to do one thing in particular: guess the next word in a sequence of words.
Because the internet is filled with untruthful information, these systems can repeat the same untruths and rely on probabilities. From time to time, they guess incorrectly, and this is what is called an AI hallucination.
Ask any AI chatbot a question, and its answers are either amusing, helpful, or just plain made up!
An AI hallucination occurs when an AI model generates incorrect information but presents it as if it were a fact. ChatGPT predicts strings of words that best match your query. However, the output can lack reasoning and logic, or fail to consider any factual inconsistencies it is spitting out.
AI hallucinations can occur for several reasons, including:
Insufficient, outdated, or low-quality training data. An AI model is only as good as its data. If the AI tool doesn't understand your prompt or doesn't have sufficient information, it will rely on the limited data it's been trained on to generate a response—even if it's inaccurate.
Use of idioms or slang expressions. If a prompt contains an idiom or slang expression that the AI model hasn't been trained on, it may lead to nonsensical outputs.
Adversarial attacks. Prompts that are deliberately designed to confuse or mislead the AI can cause it to produce AI hallucinations.
Aside from misleading users with factually inaccurate information, hallucinations can perpetuate biases or cause other harmful consequences if taken at face value.
While AI is a fascinating technology, it should not be considered a reliable replacement for seasoned professionals with extensive subject-matter and real-world experience.
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