{"671933":{"#nid":"671933","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"In Defense of AI Hallucinations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENo one knows whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or curse in the far future. But right now, there\u2019s almost universal discomfort and contempt for one habit of these chatbots and agents: hallucinations, those made-up facts that appear in the outputs of large language models like ChatGPT.\u0026nbsp;It\u0027s a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But \u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E writer Steven Levy says we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/santosh-vempala\u0022\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and adjunct professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, has studied AI hallucinations and is quoted in the article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENo one knows whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or curse in the far future. But right now, there\u2019s almost universal discomfort and contempt for one habit of these chatbots and agents: hallucinations, those made-up facts that appear in the outputs of large language models like ChatGPT.\u0026nbsp;It\u0027s a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But \u003Cem\u003EWired\u003C\/em\u003E writer Steven Levy says we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/santosh-vempala\u0022\u003ESantosh Vempala\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and adjunct professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, has studied AI hallucinations and is quoted in the article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2024-01-08 17:11:09","changed_gmt":"2024-01-08 17:11:09","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Wired","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/plaintext-in-defense-of-ai-hallucinations-chatgpt\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"69451","name":"College of Engineering; H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering"},{"id":"167405","name":"santosh vempala"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}