Fuck AI

There's definitely a correlation between the understanding/misunderstanding of what it does and the understanding/misunderstanding of what it's capable of.

If you understand even the basics of how an LLM works you understand that it's not capable of much more than mediocre at a consistent level because even with the best possible training data and a lack of bad training data it's ability to"hallucinate" is based on how incomplete the data set it's trained on is.

When it "hallucinates" it does so because it doesn't have a direct answer it can generate for whatever query is given. This is because humans can't generate a complete data set of everything that is without flaw.

So they are as average as we are if we do not attempt to better ourselves. The difference is that they can't better themselves because they do not learn. And even further than that, we can try to better the training data, but they still lack the ability to understand anything including context which makes it a useless task. The man power of humans working together might be able to get pretty close to a training set that would raise an AI LLM above the average human, but the LLM can't maintain that trajectory by itself and literally nothing else would get done.