Khalid ShamsPrincipal Solutions Architect

Learn AI · On the map · Language · idea 23 of 44

Hallucination

When an AI states something false with total confidence.

See it drawn: Follow one request through a governed AI system Gate 04, grounding

In one line

When an AI states something false with total confidence.

Picture it

A student who never says 'I don't know' and fills gaps with plausible-sounding guesses.

Under the hood

A side effect of optimising for fluent, likely text. Reduced by retrieval, citations, better training, and an evaluation that measures how often it happens.

Builds on

Large Language ModelRetrieval (RAG)

Leads to

Evaluation

On a guided path

Path 3: What a language model does, stop 9 of 10.

Marking "I get this" is self-reported and stays in this browser. The same mark shows on the map.