Funny or sad? AI's response to what percentage of factual questions are answered incorrectly by LLMs

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2. I've listed the words that literally appeared when I spoke into my phone.

I'm not trying to be snarky here either.

There's a whole debate that can be had about definitions and word choice. After all, the dictionary itself is a set that contains itself. All words are defined with other words.

I found the answer by Gemini (I assume) to be ironically accurate.

My "beef" with AI results (even a little with this one) is that AI confidently responds. My human inclination is to put weight into the level of confidence based on the confidence of the responder. I argue that in the case of AI, one should be especially suspicious of its confident answers.

I was driving into a local town and saw some event happening on the square. I had no reason to veer off course. I later asked Google what event was happening in the town on that date. Google AI responded that there was no special event scheduled that same date. (Don't trust your lying eyes, you know). Switching to "web" results (this is supposed to be traditional Google search) brought up a list of community pages which listed the antique car show that was taking place.

Similarly, I've asked what percentage of the population have cell phones. In my experience, you get differing answers by asking the same question multiple times, and by rewording the question. Three different responses that I received were 90%, 85%, and 70%. For the 90% answer, there was a link listed below the AI blurb that said that 90% of cell phones were smartphones. I don't know if that had influenced the answer.