AI hallucinations produce confident but false outputs, undermining AI accuracy. Learn how generative AI risks arise and ways to improve reliability.

P silocybin—the psychedelic ingredient found in some “magic” mushrooms—has shown a lot of promise for treating depression and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform. If you’re one of the 550 million (!) people using ChatGPT each month, then you’re ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts for external voices. Normally, the brain predicts the sound of its own ...

When someone sees something that isn't there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes today’s AI models hallucinate, or make things up and present them as if they’re true, at a lower rate than humans do, he said during a press briefing at Anthropic’s ...

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many ...

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 ...

A new study explains why current brain theories fail to fully explain near-death experiences and consciousness.

A technique that induces imaginary sounds in both mice and people could help scientists understand the brain circuits involved in schizophrenia and other disorders that cause hallucinations. The ...

Slingshot is a 2024 psychological thriller movie that uses hallucinations to question reality and make you and the characters unsure of what's happening and what's an illusion. The science fiction ...