Why AI Invents Things: What Hallucinations Are and What Is Known About Their Origin
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They once asked a chatbot about the doctoral thesis of Adam Tauman Kalai, one of the authors of an investigation into AI hallucinations. He responded with a convincing title. They repeated the consultation and offered another. Later, a third. None was correct. The case appears in an OpenAI investigation of hallucinations and summarizes a known frustration: the machine responds when it does not know.
A team of researchers from OpenAI and Georgia Tech asked a state-of-the-art open model about the birthday date of one of them, Adam Tauman Kalai, on one condition: answer only if he knew it. In three attempts he gave three different dates, the three false ones. The example opens the paper Why Language Models Hallucinate,
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