Cognitive Science

The Making of a Creative Worldview

LLMs Confabulate, Not Hallucinate

A terminological argument that LLMs "confabulate" rather than "hallucinate" — the distinction matters because confabulation (confidently filling gaps with plausible-sounding fabrication) implies a specific mechanism, while hallucination implies randomness. Getting the mechanism right leads to better mitigations.

How AI Transformers Mimic Parts of the Brain (Quanta Magazine)

Quanta Magazine's September 2022 piece on emerging research showing that transformer attention patterns converge with how the brain processes language and vision — a surprising empirical finding with implications for both AI interpretability and computational neuroscience.