It was a mistake to use the term “hallucinate” in AI. It’s a decent metaphor but it’s best to avoid terms prone to anthropomorphism.

It’s less “hallucination” and more “confabulation”

It's less "confabulation" than "pattern-based statistical prediction"

It's "hallucination" because we got image generation before text generation, but yes this is a better term.

I've suggested Runge Spiking as an alternative, non-anthropomorphic metaphor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612517

It was also a mistake calling it "AI".

Should’ve just gone with calling it Al. Seems friendly and you’ll mistake it for actual AI until you look closer

You can call it Betty.

Maybe only if you're their long last pal though.

> best to avoid terms prone to anthropomorphism

Like "understanding" and "thinking"?

Or "will change everything"?