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I can understand why this technology would be particularly addicting to hank.
His whole persona is answering questions like "what color flower do bees like the most" with the kind of enthusiasm that shows his curiosity and deep passion for science. So a machine where you can put in those sorts of questions and get an almost instant answer would be very addicting.
But when I get fixated on something, I want the correct answer. I'd hate to learn the wrong answer and repeat it to someone - I've done that before and I hate it. That's why I avoid AI on principle. I want the right answer and AI won't give that to me about things I know about so I won't trust it on things I don't know about.
This is the thing about LLMs and their users I genuinely don't get. Like, objectively, being able to input plain speech into a computer and get an almost immediate, detailed, 95% accurate answer is incredible. Genuine technological marvel.
But 95% accuracy is functionally useless for all but the most basic, unimportant tasks. Outside of a coding context (a big exception, to be clear), are people really satisfied with that?
If you can confirm it, it doesn't matter what percentage is correct.
When solving computer problems, using an LLM to guide you to the correct answer doesn't even need 95% accuracy. Every step it gives you have to execute manually, so if something is hallucinated you will notice really quickly. And if by the end your problem is solved, then all the hallucinations didn't matter.
You could do just as well googling Stack Overflow back when Google wasn't shit.
But now both SO and Google are shit...