India, Oct. 8 -- Cognitive warm-up. Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that not only had artificial intelligence been used in the creation of a $440,000 report, the same AI then littered errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. Since every AI product is routinely described as magical, and all the noise helps boost valuations for AI companies, it is imperative to note that these so-called PhD-level models still aren't anywhere close to perceived intelligence. An intern won't make the mistakes Deloitte Australia's AI of choice (apparently, its Azure OpenAI GPT-4o) did. Humans > AI. Period.

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