Did ‘Portal 2’ Foreshadow AI Hallucinations?

Did 'Portal 2' Foreshadow AI Hallucinations?

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Gamers are drawing parallels between the quirky AI behavior in Valve’s ‘Portal 2’ and the current issue of AI language model hallucinations, particularly those experienced with GPT models. A Reddit thread ignited the discussion, highlighting the uncanny resemblance between the game’s logic-defying AI and the tendency of modern AI to generate incorrect or nonsensical information. The comparison suggests the game may have inadvertently predicted a key challenge in the development of artificial intelligence. [Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1osdz24/portal_2_predicted_early_gpt_hallucinations/]