[yard2010]

But the problem is with the new stuff it hasn't seen, and questions humans don't know the answers to. It feels like this whole hallucinations thing is just the halting problem with extra steps. Maybe we should ask ChatGPT whether P=NP :)

[badrunaway]

Haha, asking chat-gpt surely won't work. Everything can "feel" like a halting problem if you want perfect results with zero error with uncertain and ambiguous new data adding.

My take - Hallucinations can never be made to perfect zero but they can be reduced to a point where these systems in 99.99% will be hallucinating less than humans and more often than not their divergences will turn out to be creative thought experiments (which I term as healthy imagination). If it hallucinates less than a top human do - I say we win :)

[jonnycat]

Right - the word "hallucination" is used a lot like the word "weed" - it's a made-up thing I don't want, rather than a made-up thing I do want.

[codetrotter]

How is weed made up? Isn’t it just dried leaves from the cannabis plant?

[Y_Y]

OP mostly likely means "weed" like "pest" or "annoyance", i.e. a category of undesirable plants that tend to appear unbidden along with desirable plants. The distinction isn't biological, it's just that when you create a space for growing then things that grow won't all be what you want.

(The term "weed" for marijuana is just a joke derived from that sense of the word.)

[wizardforhire]

Yeah but when you come to halting problems on that level of complexity multi-hierarchical-emergent phenomena occur aperiodically and chaotically that is to say in the frequency domain the aperiodicity is fractal like, discreet and mappable.