Haunting ‘Demon Faces’ Show What It’s Like to Have Rare Distorted Face Syndrome

A 58-year-old man with a rare medical condition sees faces normally on screens and paper, but in person, they take on a demonic quality. The patient has a unique case of prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a condition that causes peoples’ faces to appear distorted, reptilian, or otherwise inhuman. The Fujifilm X100VI is the Most Fun I’ve Had … Read more

In Defense of AI Hallucinations

No one knows whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or curse in the far future. But right now, there’s almost universal discomfort and contempt for one habit of these chatbots and agents: hallucinations, those made-up facts that appear in the outputs of large language models like ChatGPT. In the middle of what seems like … Read more

Hallucinations, thirst and desperation: How migrants endured 36 days at sea

FASS BOYE, Senegal — The voyage from the struggling Senegalese fishing town of Fass Boye to Spain’s Canary Islands, a gateway to the European Union where they hoped to find work, was supposed to take a week. But the wooden boat carrying 101 men and boys was getting blown further and further away from its … Read more

Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search

It may be difficult for search engines to automatically detect AI-generated text. But Microsoft could have implemented some basic safeguards, perhaps barring text drawn from chatbot transcripts from becoming a featured snippet or adding warnings that certain results or citations consist of text dreamt up by an algorithm. Griffin added a disclaimer to his blog … Read more

OpenAI discovered a strategy to make AI fashions extra logical and keep away from hallucinations

Userba011d64_201/Getty Pictures Though AI fashions are superior and might do extraordinary issues, they’re nonetheless able to making errors and producing incorrect solutions — often called hallucinations.  The entire main AI chatbots, together with ChatGPT and Google Bard, are inclined to those hallucinations. Each OpenAI and Google even embrace disclosures that their chatbots presumably produce incorrect … Read more