Term tag: hallucinations

AI Hallucinations

Models hallucinate because training and benchmarks reward guessing over admitting ignorance: a guess sometimes scores, "I don't know" scores zero every time.

Error Handling in AI Systems

Ordinary code fails by raising an exception. A model fails by returning a confident, well-formed, wrong answer that nothing catches. What to do about it.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

A technique that retrieves relevant documents at query time and feeds them into a language model's prompt, so it answers from current, external facts.