You can reduce the likelihood of incorrectness by adding the real facts to the context, which is what LLMs do. But that in and of itself is not a guarantee that the LLM will be correct. Because its fundamental process of reasoning is probabilistic word-by-word hallucination.
Well - that's not how the term is used.
And it would be an odd way to describe all the extremely useful things they discover. Are you suggesting they're taking "magic" mushrooms of some kind?
Are you not aware?
Do you just believe every bit of press release that you read? These companies have an enormous amount of pressure on them to make profit. They can and will lie to try and convince you that AI is better than it is.
Is there any evidence outside of these companies that AI is breaking new ground on literally anything? No. It can help a little with a lot of different types of work– none of it novel.
My friend, I use AI every day. I am fully aware of how fucking amazing it is.
When you can no longer clamp your ears and eyes shut, come find me. I'll love the apology.