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by mariopt 734 days ago
Hallucinations reduce the success rate of AI workflows, which must be taken seriously. Imagine a workflow with 8 steps where each step/agent has a 95% success rate, the success rate of this workflow is only (1-0.05)^8 = 0.66 ~= 66%. Not bad but not enough to replace humans yet (unless 66% makes you profitable).

The hallucinations/errors compound and can misguide decisions if you rely too much on AI.

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Not enough to replace humans in most critical tasks, but enough to replace Google, that's for sure. My own success rate to find information on Google these days is around 50% by query at best.