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Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

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3337 points keepamovin | 1 comments | 09 Dec 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | source
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jll29 ◴[10 Dec 25 12:24 UTC] No.46216933[source]▶
AI professor here. I know this page is a joke, but in the interest of accuracy, a terminological comment: we don't call it a "hallucination" if a model complies exactly with what a prompt asked for and produces a prediction, exactly as requested.

Rater, "hallucinations" are spurious replacements of factual knowledge with fictional material caused by the use of statistical process (the pseudo random number generator used with the "temperature" parameter of neural transformers): token prediction without meaning representation.

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ayewo ◴[10 Dec 25 13:24 UTC] No.46217410[source]▶
Terminology-wise, does this read like a better title instead?:

Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 generates the HN front page 10 years from now

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1. locknitpicker ◴[10 Dec 25 16:26 UTC] No.46219720[source]▶
> Terminology-wise, does this read like a better title instead?:

Generates does not convey any info on the nature of the process used to create the output. In this context, extrapolates or predicts or explores sound more suitable.

But nitpicking over these words is pointless and represents going off on a tangent. The use of the term "hallucination" reffers to the specific mechanism used to generate this type of output. Just like prompting a model to transcode a document and thus generating an output that doesn't match any established format.