ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting💩💩: Researchers

+ OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini (takes on Claude),

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The big news is that OpenAI has launched GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper variation of its GPT-4o AI model, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal formats coming soon.

GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, prices lower than those of Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash

• OpenAI has talked to chip designers including Broadcom about developing an AI server chip and hired former members of a Google unit that produces TPUs

• Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others form the Coalition for Secure AI to share best practices and open-source methodologies for secure AI deployment.

• Meta decides to suspend its generative AI tools in Brazil after the government objected to Meta's new privacy policy on using personal data to train AI models 

• Nvidia and Mistral announce Mistral NeMo, a 12B-parameter model with a context window of up to 128k tokens, available under the Apache 2.0 open-source license 

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The big news? Well, ChatGPT Isn't 'Hallucinating'–It's Bullshitting, as per researchers and academics.

Among philosophers, “bullshit” has a specialist meaning. When someone bullshits, they’re not telling the truth, but they’re also not really lying. What characterizes the bullshittern is that they just don’t care whether what they say is true. ChatGPT and its peers cannot care, and they are instead, in a technical sense, bullshit machines.

When it goes wrong, it isn’t because it hasn’t succeeded in representing the world this time; it never tries to represent the world! Calling its falsehoods “hallucinations” doesn’t capture this feature.(via).

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