Ep 846: AI Hallucinations: What they are, why they happen, and the right way to reduce the risk (Start Here Series Vol 5)
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Welcome to the Everyday AI podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson, and for the past three and a half years, we put out more than 800 episodes. Yet, one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the Everyday AI podcast? And that's why we started the Start Here series. And with Fall now back in full swing, the Everyday AI podcast is Is going back to school and playing back the entire Start Here series from front to back. We've hit pause on our normal Monday to Friday programming to run back our most popular series ever for the next 30 days. We made the Start Here series for beginners and AI champions alike. So whether you're just trying to get a grasp on large language models or grappling with the best coding harness for multi-agentic.
Workflows, the Start Here series covers it all. Plain language, no jargon, and easy to follow along each day. So make sure to subscribe to the podcast and check back each day for new insights day by day. The series is a culmination of spending more than 10,000 hours covering generative AI over the past three and a half years. So you don't want to miss a single episode of the Start Here series. Let's get into it. Let's talk about the elephant in the room when it comes to AI. That one word. Hallucinations. Right. when you rely on an AI chatbots to provide you something and it straight up lies or it tells you a very non-truthful version of what you might be looking for. And If you don't keep up with the advancements of AI, you might still think that
AI lies all the time. And well, if you're using the wrong model, if you're not using best practices, hallucinations, even in 2026, can still be a huge problem. But here's what not enough people are talking about. with the latest technology in today's thinking models and the ability to very easily ground responses in your company's data without much tech know how. Essentially get rid of at least the high rate of hallucinations. So that's why we're going to be diving into this sticky topic on the fifth volume of our Start Here series, talking about AI hallucinations, what they are, why they happen, and the right ways to reduce the risk. All right, let's get into it. I'm excited for today's conversation.
I hope you are too. If you're new here, this is our fifth installment of the Start Here series. This is the essential podcast series to both learn the AI basics and to double down on your AI knowledge. So whether you are a beginner trying to understand where do I start with AI, or you're really just trying to deepen your expertise, our Start Here series is definitely for you. And if you haven't already, please go to starthearseries.com. Here's why. Well, number one, uh, that's gonna give you access, uh, free access to our inner circle community. All right. And you're gonna get straight into uh our Start Here Series uh channel there. So you can go back and listen. to all of our uh start here series uh right there in our free community, but you can also get free access to our uh Prime Prompt and Polish, uh Prime Prompt Polish uh Chat GPT prompt engineering course.
All right. And if you miss our last episode of Start Here series, that was volume four, we talked about the human AI collaboration and best practices for working alongside AI, which leads us right into today's. Show. Because if you are doing the best practices of human AI collaboration, what we've tackled in volume four, then that leads you straight into reducing hallucinations. Because if you are working with AI in the right way versus blindly trusting its outputs, well, you're gonna uh be able to fight back against the hallucinations. So here's what we're gonna cover on today's show. First, we're gonna tell you what hallucinate what hallucinations are. Uh and Why they are there. Then we're gonna show you how to assess the risks and talk about how models have improved on hallucinations, but they still run into them.
And then last but not least, I'm going to suggest to you a kind of four-layer method to reduce the errors and show you how you don't really need to be that scared of hallucinations as long as you are being a smart human.
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