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hallucinating

hallucinating is the present participle and gerund of hallucinate.

Meaning of hallucinate

Verb

hallucinate (third-person singular simple present hallucinates, present participle hallucinating, simple past and past participle hallucinated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.
    Synonyms:
    imagine
  2. (artificial intelligence) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.
    • In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it.2015 May 21, Andrej Karpathy, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”, in Andrej Karpathy blog

Words formed from hallucinating

Questions about hallucinating

What is hallucinating the present participle and gerund of?
Hallucinating is the present participle and gerund of hallucinate.

Words near hallucinating in the dictionary

  1. hallucinant
  2. hallucinants
  3. hallucinate
  4. hallucinated
  5. hallucinates
  6. hallucinating
  7. hallucinatingly
  8. hallucination
  9. hallucinational
  10. hallucinations
  11. hallucinationy

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