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Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need

David (Jhave) Johnston · 2024 · AI video

Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need

More Than Meets AI, Bergen

“An AI-generated audio-visual artistic-lecture about AI advances, presented by David Jhave Johnston. Discover the intersection of fundamental research, hallucinations, and the transformation of arts and sciences.”

The argument runs in two directions. Hallucinations — unfounded outputs — filtered through scientific rigour are accelerating discovery from protein folding to chip design; and, reading Haraway, Metzinger and Hayles, if cognition rests on simulation and mind is everywhere, then current systems may already be generating incipient self-identity formations. Science once rejected hallucination while the arts embraced it; that arrangement is now inverting.

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