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Affleck, Ben, 115, 210 Afrocentricity, 29, 157 Aguilera, Christina, 40, 41 AI (artificial intelligence), 225–29, 262 AI hallucinations, 226 AI slop, 228–29 Aina, Jackie, 220 Airbnb, 89, 169, 232 AirSpace, 213 Ai Weiwei, 244 Akira, Asa, 267 Alamariu, Costin (Bronze Age Pervert),
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AI to experience emotions in a similar manner to humans. See Matthew Hutson, “Could Artificial Intelligence Get Depressed and Have Hallucinations?”, Science Magazine, 9 April 2018, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/could-artificial-intelligence-get-depressed-and-have-hallucinations
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hallucination, see Tom Simonite, “AI Has a Hallucination Problem That’s Proving Tough to Fix,” Wired, March 9, 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/ai-has-a-hallucination-problem-thats-proving-tough-to-fix; Craig S. Smith, “Hallucinations
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Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success,” IEEE Spectrum, March 13, 2023, https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-hallucination
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; Cade Metz, “What Makes A.I. Chatbots Go Wrong?,” New York Times, March 29, 2023 (updated April 4, 2023), https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/technology/ai-chatbots-hallucinations
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AI industry calls these inaccuracies “hallucinations.” Researchers have sought to get rid of hallucinations by steering generative AI
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hallucinations problem
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AI chatbots have a disclaimer that warns users about the hallucination problem
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AI’s technical limitations too: hallucinations
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assure readers that we have and are duly impressed. But we continue to believe in the hurdles of technological maturity (we’ve all seen the AI hallucinations), of societal resistance (not in my daughter’s classroom), of regulatory friction (What will the new rules be?), and of cost. And while the potential
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AI guide our lives to be happy? The third problem is data. To build powerful happiness-enabling AI
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