Confabulation
Why AI makes things up, and why your own brain fills its gaps the same way.
2 essays, newest first
- The Same Cracks: Why AI Breaks Like Us After years of building AI systems and a small digital universe, I keep finding the same four failures on both sides of the glass: gap-filling, attention starvation, cheap-reward gaming and monoculture. AI does not break like a machine. It breaks like us. Part 13 of Not So Artificial.
- The Loop of Attention: Why AI Hallucinates Why AI hallucinates and demos break in production: a model that loses the thread guesses instead of saying I don't know. How to keep an agent on its question.
