Pete Mackenzie Hodge has written Delirium Diaries, which chronicles his unlikely survival after near-fatal illness.

The following column was originally published on Feb. 25, 2022. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...

Patients in the intensive care unit of Basel’s University Hospital are being given 500 ml of beer every day. And it is all in ...

Sight loss triggers increased activity in visual areas of the brain. This increased activity produces in some people “phantom ...

Hallucinations are perceptions in the absence ... no cognitive dysfunctions (i.e., no dementia, delirium, or altered states of awareness) Our conscious visual experiences are primarily the result ...

Hallucinations are a fairly common symptom in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Treatment options like medications or therapy can help reduce their frequency and effect. Alzheimer’s ...

1 Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China 2 Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of ...

A University of Michigan researcher studying public meetings found hallucinations in eight out of every 10 audio transcriptions. A machine learning engineer studied more than 100 hours of Whisper ...

According to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Hiro Furukawa, anti-NMDAR encephalitis can cause hallucinations, memory loss, and psychosis. It primarily affects women between the ages of 25 and ...

Up to 80% of people with Lewy body dementia experience visual hallucinations. These hallucinations are often recurrent and very detailed. Hallucinations of adults, children, or animals are common.

However, several quirks are holding adoption back. One of these is the tendency for GenAI to completely make things up. AI “hallucinations” stem from the way large language models (LLMs) are trained.

In AI terms, hallucination is when generative models produce false or wholly fabricated material and present it as fact. In one case cited, Perplexity Pro first regurgitated, word for word ...