This is a guest post by George Wallis, one of my PhD students. We recently attended a seminar in which Oliver Sacks discussed his recent book ‘Hallucinations'. In this post George discusses the ways ...

Tactile hallucinations are sensations of touch without any physical stimulus. Some people may experience sensations of touch or movement on the skin, or within the body. Hallucinations are things that ...

AI models can confidently generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. Here's everything you need to know about hallucinations. Barbara is a tech writer ...

You can’t believe everything you hear, especially if you’re polishing off the third refill of your venti coffee. Australian researchers at La Trobe University have just published a study suggesting ...

Theories suggest hallucinations are part of normal sensory perception, not just the result of mental disorders or drugs. Felix Yarwood, a 32-year-old product designer from the UK, hallucinates. He ...

Lisa joined CNET after more than 20 years as a reporter and editor. Her coverage of AI ranged from a hands-on with OpenAI's empathetic Advanced Voice Mode to in-depth explainers on LLMs, ...

We may all be susceptible to hallucinations—and they’re not that different from how our brain interprets actual events. Hallucinations are often distressing—a suggestion that something is amiss in our ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...

Taking care of someone who is sick and feverish can be a worrying experience — especially if they’re very young, very old, or vulnerable to immune system challenges. Anxiety may escalate if the person ...

There’s a good chance you’ve hallucinated before. If you’ve ever felt the buzz of your phone against your thigh only to realize the sensation was entirely in your head, you’ve had a sensory perception ...

One of the best approaches to mitigate hallucinations is context engineering, which is the practice of shaping the information environment that the model uses to answer a question. Instead of ...