The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It's Hallucinating

Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations, a conveniently elegant term the industry uses to denote fabrications that large language models often serve up as fact. And judging by the trajectory of the latest "reasoning" models, which the likes of Google and AI have designed to "think" through a problem before answering, the problem is getting worse — not better. As the New York Times reports, as AI models become more powerful, they're also becoming more prone to hallucinating, not less. It's an inconvenient truth as users continue to flock to AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, using it for a growing array of tasks. By having chatbots spew out dubious claims, all those people risk embarrassing themselves or worse. Worst of all, AI companies are struggling to nail down why exactly chatbots are generating more errors than before — a struggle that highlights the head-scratching fact that even AI's creators don't quite understand how the tech actually works. ... Read full article.