This is a guest post by George Wallis, one of my PhD students. We recently attended a seminar in which Oliver Sacks discussed his recent book ‘Hallucinations'. In this post George discusses the ways ...

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 ...

Theories suggest hallucinations are part of normal sensory perception, not just the result of mental disorders or drugs. Felix Yarwood, a 32-year-old product designer from the UK, hallucinates. He ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

If American sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick were alive today, he might have given his most famous work the title: "Do AIs Hallucinate Electric Sheep?" This is "both a strength and a weakness", said ...

There’s a good chance you’ve hallucinated before. If you’ve ever felt the buzz of your phone against your thigh only to realize the sensation was entirely in your head, you’ve had a sensory perception ...

OpenAI released a paper last week detailing various internal tests and findings about its o3 and o4-mini models. The main differences between these newer models and the first versions of ChatGPT we ...

A new scientific paper published by OpenAI deals with hallucinations. This is false information and context that large language models (LLMs) and, therefore, also AI chatbots output. All AI companies ...