[JHonaker]

> Currently criticising LLMs on hallucinations by asking factual questions is akin to saying I tried to divide by zero on my calculator and it doesn't work. LLMs were not designed for providing factual information without context, they are thinking machines excelling at higher level intellectual work.

I would agree with you, but they're currently billed as information retrieval machines. I think it's perfectly valid to object to their accuracy at a task they're bad at, but being sold as a replacement for.

[terminalcommand]

This reminds me of movies shot in early times of the internet. We were warned that information on the internet could be inaccurate or falsified.

We found solutions to minimize wrong information for example we built and maintain Wikipedia.

LLMs will also come to a point where we can work with them comfortably. Maybe we will ask a council of various LLMs before taking an answer for granted, just like we would surf a couple of websites.