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by CapsAdmin 1176 days ago
I feel like hallucinations in the LLM sense is something we do a lot too. It's also where I feel people can come up with good ideas and different perspectives.

Many times in my life I've explained a solution to a problem to someone else, they say something like "oh that's genius! we can just do X Y Z!", but actually it's not what I meant and instead their solution is much better and often simpler than mine. Same thing has happened in reverse too of course.

One time I even hallucinated the meaning behind a song with my partner. We thought it was about the tragedy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, but actually it was about the first time snow falls in a city. I really had to double check many times when my friend told me the original meaning behind the song. Once I realized everything clicked as if I had watched a movie with a big reveal to the mystery at the end.

Maybe it's not useful in a LLM, but I think it can be a beautiful thing about humans.