Hallucination: What It Is and Why It Happens

Reasoning and Calculation · 5 min · text

Course outline

1. Knowledge and Time

• Training Cutoffs: What AI Does Not Know
• Internet Access: When AI Can Search and When It Cannot
• Working Around Outdated Knowledge
• Module 1 Quiz

2. Reasoning and Calculation

• Why AI Makes Maths Mistakes
• Hallucination: What It Is and Why It Happens
• When to Trust AI Reasoning and When to Verify
• Module 2 Quiz

3. Real-World Action and Access

• What AI Cannot Do in the Real World
• AI Agents: Reality vs the Hype
• System Access, Permissions and What to Connect

4. Creativity, Taste and Judgement

• Why AI Output Can Feel Generic
• Taste, Cultural Context and the Stuff AI Misses
• The Human Elements That Still Matter
• Modules 3 and 4 Quiz