[epalm]

I know exactly where the expectation comes from. The whole world has demanded absolute precision from computers for decades.

Of course, I agree that if we want computers to “think on their own“ or otherwise “be more human“ (whatever that means) we should expect a downgrade in correctness, because humans are wrong all the time.

[jmathai]

> The whole world has demanded absolute precision from computers for decades.

Computer engineers maybe. I think the general population is quite tolerant of mistakes as long as the general value is high.

People generally assign very high value to things computers do. To test this hypothesis all you have to do is ask folks to go a few days without their computer or phone.

[creer]

> The whole world has demanded absolute precision from computers

The opposite. Far too tolerant of the excuse "sorry, computer mistake." (But yeah, just at the same time as "the computer says so".)

[lancesells]

Is it less reliable than an encyclopedia? It is less reliable than Wikipedia? Those aren't infallible but what's the expectation if it's wrong on something relatively simple?

With the rush of investment in dollars and to use these in places like healthcare, government, security, etc. there should be absolute precision.