Confident Inaccuracy, Not Hallucination, Is the Key Barrier to AI Progress
The failure mode that stalls “AI for data” efforts or "AI on my APIs" efforts isn’t psychedelic hallucination—it’s confident inaccuracy: plausible answers that are wrong in subtle and costly ways.
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