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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

Chase Parsons, DO, MBI Chief Medical Information Officer Boston Children's Hospital
#psychiatry#neuroscience#sciComm
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Sebbe

@KevinMarks @ByrdNick that's a great list of toots. I like this one:
"This is my deeper worry about AI - as we demand that the AI justify its decision to us, we create an incentive model for confabulation, just as we have for natural intelligence. Personalised reassuring salesmanship and gaslighting."

Especially: "Personalised reassuring salesmanship and gaslighting" Ouch...

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Martijn Faassen

@KevinMarks

@ByrdNick

I was familiar with the concept so when I saw LLMs do it that immediately struck me. But it looks like you were predicting something like this years in advance.

I see some of this in the context of machine understandability, with plausible yet false explanations for other processes. That would almost be nice as I suspect a lot of human speech is a bit like that. LLMs don't typically do that - they just explain themselves badly.

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