Hallucination is inevitable

Researchers show that hallucination is inevitable:

LLMs cannot learn all of the computable functions and will therefore always hallucinate. Since the formal world is a part of the real world which is much more complicated, hallucinations are also inevitable for real world LLMs.

(From: [2401.11817] Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models)

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam (The Netherlands). He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 65 events, most recently in Leeds, UK.

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