From fake court cases to billion-dollar market losses, these real AI hallucination disasters show why unchecked generative AI ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

Research has shown that the hypnagogic state is a creative "sweet spot." For example, in a 2021 study, participants in a hypnagogic state were three times more likely to discover the "hidden rule" ...

Man using a laptop at a conference. — Image © Tim Sandle Man using a laptop at a conference. — Image © Tim Sandle As the year draws to a close, James Wickett ...

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Up in the Cascade Mountains, 90 miles east of Seattle, a group of high-ranking Amazon engineers gather for a private off-site. They hail from the company’s North America Stores division, and they’re ...

If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT a question only to receive an answer that reads well but is completely wrong, then you’ve witnessed a hallucination. Some hallucinations can be downright funny (i.e. the ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry. Now, researchers have found brainwave evidence showing exactly how ...

Generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot make stuff up all the time. Here’s how to rein in those lying tendencies and make better use of the tools. Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, ...

The Australian Financial Review reports that Deloitte Australia will offer the Australian government a partial refund for a report that was littered with AI-hallucinated quotes and references to ...

OpenAI has published a new paper identifying why ChatGPT is prone to making things up. Unfortunately, the problem may be unfixable. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time. In the fall of 2020, as patients infected with COVID-19 filled the wards of the ...