>A pocket calculator that would give the right numbers 99.7% of the time would be fairly useless.

Well that's great and all, but the vast majority of llm use is not for stuff you can just pluck out a pocket calculator (or run a similarly airtight deterministic algorithm) for, so this is just a moot point.

People really need to let go of this obsession with a perfect general intelligence that never makes errors. It doesn't and has never existed besides in fiction.