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.
凭借一个孤例（我）来推断或许有失草率，但坦白说，我的记忆并不完美：我会忘记一些事情，记错一些事情，偶尔“记得”从没发生过的事情。我想，一些英国《金融时报》读者的记性或许也同样稀里糊涂。一台智能机器可能会把这叫做“人类的幻觉”。