Time to Snap Out of Hallucinations

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Generative AI chatbots behave like know-it-alls. Omniscient, maybe, but they can also be sporadically unreliable with answers. At times, they enter a dream-like, zone-out state and start hallucinating.

That’s what went down at the event when Google released its much-anticipated chatbot, Bard. In a promotional video, Bard was asked about new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope. The bot gave three answers and also said JWST took the first picture of a planet outside of our solar system. Wrong answer!