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Did OpenAI Just Solve AI Hallucinations?
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Hey Reader, Welcome back! This week, OpenAI published a paper that may solve one of AI's biggest limitations: hallucinations. We'll explain everything you need to know about that breakthrough, show you how to use the impressive new updates to Claude, share a prompt you can use to optimize your AI image editing, and more. Let's get right into it... 🪄 App of the Week: Claude Use Case: Create and Edit Files in a Conversation, New Mobile Integrations Link: Claude (Integrations are Free, Create & Edit Requires Paid Account. Not Sponsored!)​ Why you should care: First up: Claude can now create and edit files. This includes most formats people generally use like Excel files, Word documents, PDFs, slide decks and more. You simply describe what you need, optionally upload additional data, and send the prompt to Claude, which will return ready-to-use files. Note that for now, the file creation is only available as a preview for Max, Team and Enterprise users, with Pro users getting access in the coming weeks. But the next update is available for everyone, even those on free plans! Anthropic launched a new Integrations update for the Claude mobile app on iOS and Android. This lets Claude use your phone's apps to do things like find nearby places and show them on a map, check your calendar and create events, draft texts and emails, and more all from inside the Claude chat interface. To use this new Integrations feature, simply ensure your Claude mobile app is up to date and go to the "Permissions" section in the settings. Enable the integrations you'd like and keep any you want private disabled. Once you've done that, you're ready to go! Simply ask Claude something like "Are there any good places to eat near me?" or "What do I have on my calendar today?" and Claude will automatically begin using the integrations to check and return a response. These updates bring Claude closer to being a real competitor for ChatGPT and Gemini. Many hardcore AI nerds (including Igor) already find themselves using Claude more often than ChatGPT. So go give it a try! ​ 📰 News That Matters: OpenAI Makes Significant Progress in Solving Hallucinations Link: Why Language Models Hallucinate | OpenAI​ Why it matters: If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT a question and gotten back an overconfident, completely wrong answer, you’ve been the victim of an AI hallucination. And according to a new paper from OpenAI, this hallucination bug is a direct result of current AI training methods. The paper argues that hallucinations are baked into both pre-training and post-training. During pre-training, generating correct answers is harder than spotting incorrect ones, which means base models are already prone to error. Then reinforcement learning (the phase where models are fine-tuned to sound more helpful and decisive) actually teaches them to “bluff” when uncertain, rewarding confident wrong answers over simply saying "I don’t know". That’s a problem, because current benchmarks double down on this behavior. Most only give credit for correct answers and penalize both mistakes and abstaining from answering. The result is that models learn that guessing confidently is better than admitting uncertainty. OpenAI’s proposed fix is straightforward: introduce behavioral calibration. In practice, that means models should only answer when they’re above a certain confidence threshold (say 75%), and otherwise return “I don’t know.” Benchmarks would also need to change to score neutral on abstentions instead of treating them as failures. This could fundamentally reshape how we evaluate and train models, which would be a massive turning point for trust in AI systems. Because let’s face it: when the choice is between a bad bluff and an honest “I don’t know,” we’d all rather hear the latter. 📝 Prompt of the Week: Perfect Nano Banana Edits Prompt Formula: Quick Description: It’s designed to do one thing really well: make extremely precise edits without messing up the rest of the image. So whether you want to remove a background object, tweak someone’s outfit, or change the color of a car, this prompt keeps the rest of the image perfectly intact. No weird lighting shifts. No accidental object removals. Just a clean, focused edit. How to Use:
📽️ Video of the Week: AI-Powered Telepathy
Boston startup Alterego just released a demo video showcasing their "near-telepathic" AI wearable under development. According to Alterego, it detects a user's subtle movements and interprets the silent communication to receive a full message, all without the user speaking a word out loud. You really need to see this to believe it, and honestly, most people may have to use this to believe it. That's how magical tech like this is. Welcome to the future! 📢 Community Highlight: Everything You Need to Know About Perplexity's Comet Browser Perplexity's Comet browser is a hidden gem of an AI tool, and you can learn everything you need to know whether it's right for your use cases in this new guide published by AI Advantage team member Kostiantyn Sytnyk. In it, he highlights Comet's main features, shares some suggested prompts to use with the browser, and even showcases some real-world use cases to give you some inspiration. So go check it out in The AI Advantage Community if you're looking to upgrade your web browsing experience with AI! Not a member yet? ​Click here to get all the information you need about The AI Advantage Community and sign up today.​ That's all for this week! See you next Thursday. Much Love, ​ ​ Follow The AI Advantage: Written By:​ |
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