The Cambridge Dictionary team chose hallucinate as its Word of the Year 2023 as it recognized that the new meaning gets to the heart of why people are talking about AI," the dictionary writes. "Generative AI is a powerful tool but one we're all still learning how to interact with safely and effectively-this means being aware of both its potential strengths and its current weaknesses.
Like all words, its definition borrows heavily from context. When machine learning researchers use the term hallucinate (which they still do, frequently, judging by research papers), they typically understand an LLM's limitations-for example, that the AI model is not alive or "conscious" by human standards-but the general public may not.
'The Cambridge Dictionary team chose hallucinate as its Word of the Year 2023 as it recognized that the new meaning gets to the heart of why people are talking about AI," the dictionary writes. "Generative AI is a powerful tool but one we're all still learning how to interact with safely and effectively-this means being aware of both its potential strengths and its current weaknesses.'
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