AI hallucinations will be solvable within a year, ex-Google AI researcher says—but that may not be a good thing

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• “We’re used to designing user experiences that are fault tolerant in some way,” the UCL graduate who has a PhD in machine learning added.
• Plus, Habib thinks that a little bit of hallucination could be good—necessary even—if we want AI to help humanity think outside of the box.
• “If we want to have models that will one day be able to create new knowledge for us, then we need them to be able to act as conjecture machines, we want them to propose things that are weird and novel—and then be able to filter that in some way,” he explained.
• “So in some senses, [especially] if you’re doing creative tasks, having the models be able to sort of fabricate things that are going off the data domain is not necessarily a terrible thing.”

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