It may be rash to extrapolate from a sample size of one (me). But I confess that my memory is not perfect: I forget some things, confuse others and occasionally “remember” events that never happened. I suspect some FT readers may be similarly muddle-headed. A smart machine might call this human hallucination.We talk a lot about generative AI models hallucinating facts. We wince at the lawyer who submitted a court document containing fictitious cases invented by ChatGPT. An FT colleague, who prompted the chatbot to produce a chart of the training costs of generative AI models, was startled to see that the most expensive one it identified did not exist (unless the model has access to inside information). As every user rapidly discovers: these models are unreliable — just like humans. The interesting question is: are machines more corrigible than us? It may prove easier to rewrite code than rewire the brain.
憑借一個孤例（我）來推斷或許有失草率，但坦白說，我的記憶并不完美：我會忘記一些事情，記錯一些事情，偶爾“記得”從沒發生過的事情。我想，一些英國《金融時報》讀者的記性或許也同樣稀里糊涂。一臺智能機器可能會把這叫做“人類的幻覺”。