> "I googled 'the closest ice cream shop to my house' but it 'hallucinated' the one that was the second-closest'"
a google search doesn't do that though. It will actually select ice cream shops from it's database, determine their location, your location, and calculate the distance. And then select the closest.
It may mis-calculate, but it will not "hallucinate".
This is incredibly different than what LLMs do, which is why hallucinate is appropriate for an LLM but not appropriate for a conventional search or map engine
I fail to see how this difference strongly justifies the word "hallucination."
The computer is crunching numbers and probabilities of things and giving its best guess based on that, in both cases. If it's appropriate for one, it should be for the other.
(which, I'd say, it isn't, because "hallucination" implies "mistake by a human-like thing")
> The computer is crunching numbers and probabilities of things and giving its best guess based on that, in both cases. If it's appropriate for one, it should be for the other.
Google maps isn't choosing a nearest ice cream store based on probability, it's using an algorithm designed for this purpose.
a google search doesn't do that though. It will actually select ice cream shops from it's database, determine their location, your location, and calculate the distance. And then select the closest.
It may mis-calculate, but it will not "hallucinate".
This is incredibly different than what LLMs do, which is why hallucinate is appropriate for an LLM but not appropriate for a conventional search or map engine