The Machine Religion - 5

When humans hallucinate how is that different from when machines hallucinate?

That question brings to mind the time Woody Allen was told that photons have mass.

He replied "What? I didn't even know they were Catholic!"

But I digress.

Is there a distinction without a difference here:

"In artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also occasionally called confabulation or delusion) is a confident response by an AI that does not seem to be justified by its training data. For example, a hallucinating chatbot with no training data regarding Tesla's revenue might internally generate a random number (such as "$13.6 billion") that the algorithm ranks with high confidence, and then go on to falsely and repeatedly represent that Tesla's revenue is $13.6 billion, with no provided context that the figure was a product of the weakness of its generation algorithm.

Such phenomena are termed "hallucinations", in analogy with the phenomenon of hallucination in human psychology. Note that while a human hallucination is a perception by a human that cannot sensibly be associated with the portion of the external world that the human is currently directly observing with sense organs, an AI hallucination is instead a confident response by an AI that cannot be grounded in any of its training data."

(Hallucination, artificial intelligence). So, get in touch with your inner machine ... check out:

Putting A Face On Machine Mutation, 2, 3, 4
The Machine Religion, 2, 3, 4
The New Paradigm: The Physical Universe Is Mostly Machine, 2, 3
Did Abiotic Intelligence Precede Biotic Intelligence?

Hallucinations are not just for machines anymore.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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The Graphs Of The Age Of Plunder - 3

Fig. 1 Confirmation of Dredd Blog stuff

Regular readers of Dredd Blog know that they can often stay ahead of the curve by reading this blog's stuff.

For example, posts about the plunderers began here about 15 years ago in 2009, then was repeated a few years later:

"In the first post of this series in 2009 we began to take a look at how the 1% have used war, bank machinations, and taxing schemes to constantly plunder the 99% for several decades.

Even though this post is the second in a series, take note that there are many somewhat related Dredd Blog posts contained in similar series, such as: Riders On The Storm ... of Plunder, Banker Jekyll Will Hyde Your Money, Bush II Eradicated The Robber Barons, and War Is The Highway 61 Of The 1%, to name a few.

But in this post today, readers will have an opportunity to focus on the "largest financial corruption scandal yet", according to some commentators, which concerns the little known "LIBOR", a rate used by the big banks."

(The Graphs Of The Age Of Plunder - 2, 2012). The recently published book depicted in Fig. 1 illustrates that the plunder Dredd Blog pointed out ages ago is continuing and perhaps getting worse.

You can review some of the Dredd Blog history of such matters on the "Series Posts (A-M)" and "Series Posts (N-Z)" free from costs, ads, or commercials.

Just sayin' ...

The previous post in this series is here.

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