Why the brain fills in the gaps—even when it shouldn't Medically reviewed by Shaheen Lakhan, MD, PhD, FAAN Our memory isn't always as reliable as we'd like to think. For example, sometimes people ...

It’s one of the world’s worst-kept secrets that large language models give blatantly false answers to queries and do so with a confidence that’s indistinguishable from when they get things right.

Broadly defined, confabulation is the production of fictitious stories. There are different forms of confabulation, which have been classified in different ways by several authors. This multiplicity ...

If you have any familiarity with ChatBots and Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, you know that these technologies have a major problem, which is that they “hallucinate.” That is, they ...