✅ GPTs and Hallucination

Technology

The recent developments of LLMs (large language models) and the applications built on them such as ChatGPT have completely revolutionized human-AI interactions because of their ability to generate comprehensive and coherent text. Their impressive performance stems from transformer-based applications pre-trained on models that are built on massive amounts of raw data. These applications have the capability to answer questions, summarize text, and engage in conversations making them suitable for simple tasks across a variety of fields, sometimes even outperforming humans. Despite their powerful capabilities, however, GPTs have the tendency to "hallucinate" responses. A hallucination occurs when an LLM-based GPT generates a response that is seemingly realistic yet is nonfactual, nonsensical, or inconsistent with the given prompt.

queue.acm.org     Sep 10, 2024