I've had occasion to ask an AI about a thing twice lately (a recent online phenomenon, and a book recommendation). Both times I asked both Gemini and ChatGPT, and both times one gave a reasonable if bland answer, and the other (a different one each time) gave a plausible but completely fictional ("hallucinated") answer.
When do we acknowledge that LLMs, and "AI" in general, aren't quite ready to revolutionize the world?
@ceoln once first round of funding for all the startups is over
@ceoln I completely agree with you, but come to the opposite conclusion.. these tools are almost ready to revolutionize the world.
Almost, once the tiny "just making stuff up" problem is solved? :)
@ceoln basically yeah. Also the “infringed the copyright of every person who ever lived” bit.
Oh yeah that one too! 
When do we acknowledge that LLMs, and "AI" in general, aren't quite ready to revolutionize the world?
Probably never. It's more convenient to pretend that AI is almighty and omniscient already now than to go on thinking and doing stuff yourself.
I'm waiting for demands to remove the means to manually add image descriptions to Fediverse posts and rely solely on AI descriptions because that's easier.
And I tried #llama3 from #facebook and it just made stuff up, too. Geeeez!