Comment by KyeRussell
3 years ago
I genuinely can’t recall people saying “hallucinate” with any regularity - in the context of “AI” - until people started talking about ChatGPT.
So, we’ll see what people say in a year.
3 years ago
I genuinely can’t recall people saying “hallucinate” with any regularity - in the context of “AI” - until people started talking about ChatGPT.
So, we’ll see what people say in a year.
The term has been around in this context since at least 2018[1], and indeed I have chat logs from 2019 talking about how mtl [machine translation] hallucinates, so no, this has been what people have been calling it for a while now. Perhaps what you're seeing is just rising awareness that this is a weakness of current-gen ML models, which is great, now even monoglots get to feel my pain :V
[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-has-a-hallucination-problem-t...
I think it started a bit earlier - already with image generation AI like dall-e.
I first recall seeing it in the context of DeepDream in 2015
Even earlier with Deep Dream