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👁️ To see unreal things 🤖 To make up data
to hallucinate

to hallucinate

1 8.0
To make up facts or details by a computer program
  • verb
  • /həˈluːsɪneɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : alucinar (generar información falsa)
  • But don't hallucinate it.

Do you think we can get to a place where AI doesn't hallucinate?

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Examples

  • In order to not have to actually act on these desires, we hallucinate ourselves in the virtual reality of the dream to be to be fulfilling them.

  • So it's and what and what point do you hallucinate from?

  • So tell your neighbor right now, what do you hallucinate to be true?

  • And so when they're just starting out, just pour it on the page, hallucinate, try to have fun with it, be excited about it.

  • Most business owners dream of and hallucinate about the day when someone will walk into their business with bags of cash, and they will sell out and ride off into the sunset.

    Blog text (11)

  • What will be the fortune of my image, its progress through use in the world and through my constant examination of it, if it employs me to its ends, if I lose control of the image, if it hallucinates me?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • You dreamed that Pastor Dan shot that professor, and now you've hallucinated this thing with Jerry Hobson!

    Salvation Boulevard (2011)

  • l've been hallucinating.

    Shooter (2007)

  • Patrick (cont'd, V.O.) can almost hallucinate the camera panning low around us. -- Pan around Patrick and Jean as they kiss, starting low, gradually rising --

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Using sophisticated algorithms, the AI can hallucinate details that were not part of the original dataset.

Synonyms

to confabulate
vsto hallucinate
  • Specialized
1 9.9

To make up stories to fill gaps in memory

is broader, producing unsupported false content not only to fill gaps
hallucinating
vsto hallucinate
  • Specialized
7.9

Giving wrong information as if it were true, usually by a computer program

is the technical term for generating unsupported or false content

How Accurate

to infer
57 5.5
guess
768 1.0
to hallucinate
  • Specialized
1 8.0
to fabricate
50 7.3

Surface Forms

hallucinate infinitive
hallucinated past
hallucinated past participle
hallucinating present participle
hallucinates third person singular

Morphology

hallucinate = hallucination (semi-transparent) = hallucin + ate

The AI sense is a metaphorical extension of the original perceptual meaning (generating false or unsupported content), so the relation to the base is recognizable but not literal.

Etymology

Hallucinate used in computing comes from the same Latin idea hallucinari, which meant 'to wander in the mind'. A helpful image is of a computer or AI 'walking away' from the facts and inventing details that are not in the data.