Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

Language Models (LLMs) and their capabilities become an increasingly prominent aspect of our workflows and our lives

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Hallucination or Confabulation? Neuroanatomy as metaphor in Large Language Models

Semantic Scholar · Linguistics · 2023

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Language Models (LLMs) and their capabilities become an increasingly prominent aspect of our workflows and our lives

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