When humans hallucinate how is that different from when machines hallucinate?
That question brings to mind the time Woody Allen was told that photons have mass.
He replied "What? I didn't even know they were Catholic!"
But I digress.
Is there a distinction without a difference here:
"In artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also occasionally called confabulation or 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 training data regarding Tesla's revenue might internally generate a random number (such as "$13.6 billion") that the algorithm ranks with high confidence, and then go on to falsely and repeatedly represent that Tesla's revenue is $13.6 billion, with no provided context that the figure was a product of the weakness of its generation algorithm.
Such phenomena are termed "hallucinations", in analogy with the phenomenon of hallucination in human psychology. Note that while a human hallucination is a perception by a human that cannot sensibly be associated with the portion of the external world that the human is currently directly observing with sense organs, an AI hallucination is instead a confident response by an AI that cannot be grounded in any of its training data."
(Hallucination, artificial intelligence). So, get in touch with your inner machine ... check out:
Putting A Face On Machine Mutation, 2, 3, 4
The Machine Religion, 2, 3, 4
The New Paradigm: The Physical Universe Is Mostly Machine, 2, 3
Did Abiotic Intelligence Precede Biotic Intelligence?
Hallucinations are not just for machines anymore.
The previous post in this series is here.