The Weird World of AI Hallucinations

When someone sees something that isn't there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli. Technologies that rely on artificial intelligence can have hallucinations, too. When an algorithmic system generates information that seems plausible but is actually inaccurate or misleading, computer scientists call it an AI hallucination. Editor's Note: Guest authors Anna Choi and Katelyn Xiaoying Mei are Information Science PhD students. Anna's work relates to the intersection between AI ethics and speech recognition. Katelyn's research work relates to psychology and Human-AI interaction. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers and users alike have found these behaviors in different types of AI systems, from chatbots such as ChatGPT to image generators such as Dall-E to autonomous vehicles. We are information science researchers who ... Read full article.