Pinecone's CEO is on a quest to give AI something like knowledge

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ChatGPT and other generative AI programs spit out "hallucinations," assertions of falsehoods as fact, because the programs are not built to "know" anything; they are simply built to produce a string of characters that is a plausible continuation of whatever you've just typed. 

"If I ask a question about medicine or legal or some technical question, the LLM [large language model] will not have that information, especially if that information is proprietary," said Edo Liberty, CEO and founder of startup Pinecone, in an interview recently with ZDNET. "So, it will just make up something, what we call hallucinations."

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