Cambridge Dictionary Names Word of The Year: It Is Related to Artificial Intelligence

The Cambridge Dictionary has named the term "hallucination" as the word of the year for 2023, giving it a new meaning in the field of artificial intelligence, Sky News reports.

The traditional definition of a hallucination is when a person sees something that does not exist. This usually happens due to a deteriorating health condition or drug use. But now it also applies to AI that produces false information.

The dictionary definition is as follows: "When an artificial intelligence (a computer system that has some of the qualities of a human brain, such as the ability to produce speech that sounds human) hallucinates, it produces false information."

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT. The chatbot was even used by a British judge to write a court decision. There are also cases when writers use ChatGPT to write novels. However, this tool does not always provide reliable and fact-checked prose.

Artificial intelligence hallucinations are also called confabulations. In such cases, AI tools provide false information, which can range from suggestions that seem quite plausible to obviously ridiculous.

"The fact that artificial intelligence can hallucinate reminds us that people still need to develop critical thinking skills to use these tools," explains Cambridge Dictionary Publishing Manager Wendalyn Nichols, who said, "Artificial intelligence is a fantastic invention for processing huge amounts of data to isolate specific information and consolidate it. But the more original you ask them to be, the more likely they are to get lost."

Reference: ChatGPT is a large statistical language model optimised for conversations and tuned using supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.

As previously reported by The Gaze,YouTube takes action against AI-generated fake videos. YouTube officially announced on Tuesday that it will allow users to request the removal of deceptive videos created by artificial intelligence on the platform. It will also mandate labels on videos with realistic appearances that could deceive viewers. This information comes from an official blog post by YouTube's Vice Presidents of Product Management, Jennifer Flannery O'Connor and Emily Moxley.