Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow

By Wei Xing, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield

OpenAI’s latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as “hallucination”. It also reveals why the problem may be unfixable, at least as far as consumers are concerned.

The paper provides the most rigorous mathematical explanation yet for why these models confidently state falsehoods. It demonstrates that these aren’t…

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