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"Humans hallucinate too"

No they dont. Humans also know when they are pretending to know what they are talking about - put said people against the wall and they will freely admit they have no idea what the buzzwords they are saying mean.

Machines possess no such characteristic.





>"Humans hallucinate too"

>No they dont.

WTAF? Maybe you're new here, but the term "hallucinate" came from a very human experience, and was only usurped recently by "AI" bros who wanted to anthropomorphize a tin can.

>Humans also know when they are pretending to know what they are talking about - put said people against the wall and they will freely admit they have no idea what the buzzwords they are saying mean.

>Machines possess no such characteristic.

"AI" will say whatever you want to hear to make you go away. That's the extent of their "characteristic". If it doesn't satisfy the user, they try again, and spit out whatever garbage it calculates should make the user go away. The machine has far less of an "idea" what it's saying.


Aside: "Hallucinate" was an unfortunate choice of words. It should have been "confabulate". And, yes, humans confabulate, too.



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