A simulation shows what may have happened to Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, who was trapped behind a fridge for 10 years after he ...

A project that found AI summaries are likely to majorly influence buying decisions raises interesting and potentially disturbing questions about how much we trust AI-generated content. When you ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly, yet AI hallucinations remain a significant challenge. These occur when models generate convincing but incorrect content, like fictitious events or ...

AI hallucinations are one of the most serious challenges facing generative AI today. These errors go far beyond minor factual mistakes. In real-world deployments, hallucinations have led to incorrect ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

When an Air Canada customer service chatbot assured a passenger that they qualified for a bereavement refund—a policy that didn't exist—nobody suspected anything. The passenger booked their ticket ...

AI hallucinations about a brand come in many types: A generative AI system might show a person who isn’t the actual founder, display the wrong address for the headquarters, or describe an old product ...

Law firms can't stop lawyers from tinkering with chatbots, so they're adding hallucination detectors. Tools like Clearbrief scan legal drafts for the fake cases and facts that AI tools sometimes ...

Hallucinations are more common than we think, and they may be an underlying mechanism for how our brains experience the world. One scientist calls them “everyday hallucinations” to describe ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

Generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot make stuff up all the time. Here’s how to rein in those lying tendencies and make better use of the tools. Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, ...