Georgia Tech's Santosh Vempala Explains Why Language Models Hallucinate, His Research With OpenAI

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Santosh Vempala discusses his research on language model hallucinations and collaboration with OpenAI.

Santosh Vempala, Frederick Storey II Chair of Computing and Distinguished Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, explains his paper co-authored by OpenAI's Adam Tauman Kalai, Ofir Nachum, and Edwin Zhang. Read the paper: Sign up for future AI research paper readings and author office hours. See LLM hallucination examples here for context. Learn more about AI observability and evaluation, join the Arize AI Slack community or get the latest on LinkedIn and X.

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Guest: Santosh Vempala

Topics covered

• language models
• AI research
• hallucination
• computing
• observability

Keywords

• language models
• hallucination
• AI research
• Georgia Tech
• OpenAI

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Organizations: Georgia Tech, OpenAI

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