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Geoffrey Hinton says the term "confabulate" is more apt to describe the mutex/mutating memory recall operation of the brain as it summons "known facts" and "gets them wrong." confabulation is a feature, not a bug, of the brain, and also a feature, not a bug. If the goal is to reach brainlike computing, we are getting closer.


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