rokosbasilisk comments on Goodbye, Shoggoth: The Stage, its Animatronics, & the Puppeteer – a New Metaphor

[rokosbasilisk]

though as Geoff Hinton has pointed out, ‘confabulations’ might be a better word

I think yann lecun was the first one to using this word https://​​twitter.com/​​ylecun/​​status/​​1667272618825723909

[RogerDearnaley]

I recall Geoff Hinton saying this in an interview a little after he left Google, which would put it in about June of this year — the same month as that tweet of LeCun’s you link to, which I was previously unaware of. So I have no idea which of them was first, but Hinton was who I heard it from.