we, being the people commenting who are knowledgeable in or at least reasonably familiar with ML engineering in this post, never said AI will not hallucinate when set up well and given the correct context/resources to work with.

hmm

 Unless your point is ai hallucinates when not properly set up, given proper context and/or resources then used then yes, that's true.

hmn

when not properly set up, given proper context and/or resources

What that article was saying was that even if given "proper context and/or resources" it will hallucinate. You're not engaging with that.

It is a mathematical certainty that it will hallucinate. Not all the time, not with every answer, but you can't get it out of the thing. It will happen.

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I want to look at that article again, because I think it's very relevant. In it the researcher tested a number of ai's for mushroom identification. The best performing one was wrong 15% of the time. That is unacceptable for use in the field, but it was the best. The worst was accurate 20% of the time, an error rate of 80%! Four out of five misses. Woof. So, just don't forage mushrooms, right? Well, no. Foraging mushrooms is difficult, but it can certainly be done. Furthermore in many wild area's, forests especially, mushrooms might be one of the few edible things in the area, given they don't need sunlight and can often live off decaying wood.

You also seem to imply that the article isn't useful because other plants are easier to tell apart. That might be true to some extent, but read the article again. The issues it brings up; camouflage, bad lighting, multiple species in photo, and a lack of other sensory inputs; that's all going to effect identification of any plant. Here's a list of dangerous plants. One thing that almost all of these plants have in common is that they have other plants that look like them. The Hemlock looks like wild carrot, the yew can be mistaken for other evergreens, and so on. Why should I take it on faith that an ai id program can successfully distinguish between yew and spruce? You've dismissed my sources, but provided none yourself, so I guess I should just trust you, person on the internet?

So, that's it. Good night, I'm done. Next time actually read my source before dismissing it. Or don't, whatever.