AI hallucinations are one of the most serious challenges facing generative AI today. These errors go far beyond minor factual mistakes. In real-world deployments, hallucinations have led to incorrect ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

When an Air Canada customer service chatbot assured a passenger that they qualified for a bereavement refund—a policy that didn't exist—nobody suspected anything. The passenger booked their ticket ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

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, ...

A new study led by psychologists from UNSW Sydney has provided the strongest evidence yet that auditory verbal hallucinations – or hearing voices – in schizophrenia may stem from a disruption in the ...

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 ...

From left to right: Soumi Saha, senior vice president of government affairs at Premier Inc.; Jennifer Goldsack, founder and CEO of the Digital Medicine Society Hallucinations are a frequent point of ...

OpenAI’s latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up—known in the world of artificial intelligence as “hallucination.” It also reveals why ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

From today's decision in Noland v. Land of the Free, L.P., by Justice Lee Smalley Edmon, joined by Justice Anne Egerton and Riverside Superior Court Judge Kira Klatchko: [N]early all of the legal ...