hallucinate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, from alūcināri (to dream).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /həˈl(j)uːsɪneɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]hallucinate (third-person singular simple present hallucinates, present participle hallucinating, simple past and past participle hallucinated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.
- Synonyms: imagine, see things
- (artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.
- 2015 May 21, Andrej Karpathy, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”, in Andrej Karpathy blog:
- In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it.
- 2021 September 14, Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaiane, Avishek Joey Bose, “Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding”, in arXiv:2104.08455 [cs][1], :
- Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]seem to perceive what is not really present
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References
[edit]- “hallucinate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.