The Mirage of AI Hallucinations

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Photo credit: “Mirages in the Sahara Desert” by Meg Gilbert is licensed via CC BY-SA.

On 9 July 2024, I gave a talk to the Portland, Oregon Product Tank based on my collaboration with Anna Mills on the terminology and metaphors we use to describe artificial intelligence (AI) outputs when they don’t match our expectations of shared reality.

You can view the slides from the presentation and coming soon, a transcript and recording of the talk.

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