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jacquesmtoday at 3:19 PM1 replyview on HN

AI is extremely good at the things that it has many examples for. If what you are doing is novel then it is much less of a help, and it is far more likely to start hallucinating because 'I don't know' is not in the vocabulary of any AI.


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Filligreetoday at 4:21 PM

> because 'I don't know' is not in the vocabulary of any AI.

That is clearly false. I’m only familiar with Opus, but it quite regularly tells me that, and/or decides it needs to do research before answering.

If I instruct it to answer regardless, it generally turns out that it indeed didn’t know.

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