In 10 to 20 years, Elon Musk is going to repeat the same claim.

I always wanted something like a "History of human progress" which when zoomed out shows me something like this:

    -2000000 Stone tools
    -1000000 Using fire
       -6000 Metal tools
       -6000 Agriculture
       -4000 Writing
        1550 Printing
        1888 Telephones
        1888 Cars
        1903 Planes
        1941 Penicillin
        1941 First computer
        1982 Homecomputers
        1983 Mobile phones
        1990 The internet
        2001 Wikipedia
        2004 Facebook 
        2007 IPhone
        2022 ChatGPT

And then I can zoom in on particular areas of time and see smaller milestones.

Dreadfully sorry but I don't understand this - I'm not a Windows user. Don't you have to buy Windows 11? It's not ad supported (like US broadcast TV) is it?

For the most part, yes. Because people usually read docs and test it on their own.

But I remember a few people long ago telling me confidently how to do this or that in e.g. "git" only to find out during testing that it didn't quite work like that. Or telling me about how some subsystem could be tested. When it didn't work like that at all. Because they operated from memory instead of checking. Or confused one tool/system for another.

LLMs can and should verify their assumptions too. The blog article is about that. That should keep most hallucinations and mistakes people make from doing any real harm.

If you let an LLM do that it won't be much of a problem either. I usually link an LLM to an online source for an API I want to use or tell it just look it up so it is less likely to make such mistakes. It helps.

Are you sure? I've been confidently wrong about stuff before. Embarrassing, but it happens.. And I've been working with many people who are sometimes wrong about stuff too. With LLMs you call that "hallucinating" and with people we just call it "lapse in memory", "error in judgment", or "being distracted", or plain "a mistake".