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This take is a bit outdated now. At its core it is still true, but lots has happened to improve LLMs as fact-retrieval tools, and I think they’re generally very good at it provided you, the operator, have your head screwed on and do the work to verify.

Pretty much every criticism of AI also sounds like a criticism of 90% of human behaviour

I think it’s reasonable to expect new technology to be better than us, I can understand being frustrated when you ask it something and it comes back with total nonsense. I don’t think it’s a great defence to say “people also make mistakes.”

But it IS better than us, that’s why we are both using it so much. It’s just not better than us at *everything*