KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

(techcrunch.com)

87 points | by Brajeshwar 5 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • gdulli 2 hours ago ago

    > Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,”

    Well they were true to their word about demonstrating a new and increasingly relevant definition of "excellence."

  • Scoundreller 2 hours ago ago

    Gartner is going to have to pull a loooot of reports over the years

  • XenophileJKO an hour ago ago

    The crazy thing is the level of effort to say, "have a sub agent validate all references and figures" is so low. I'm paraphrasing, but you don't need much more than that. It would have prevented 99% of the face palms.

    I use this regularly for my personal financial research system. Even flagship models make mistakes. Though currently the issue is usually the model using a figure from and older report. Cross-check reduces that dramatically.

    • iugtmkbdfil834 25 minutes ago ago

      Eh.. without going into too many details, having seen some face palms at work, I realized that the anecdotes may be closer to a pattern than I would like to believe, which prompted me to start basic howtos available company-wide.

      I kinda get it, without experience and trying, how are they to know ( unless they are already 'into it')? After all, corporate training is laughable at best.

    • modzu 22 minutes ago ago

      dont be so sure they didnt. they can go back and forth hallucinating with each other

  • jruohonen 5 hours ago ago

    Go, GPTZero!

  • cryo32 19 minutes ago ago

    KPMG got called out only now for bullshit and hallucinations?

  • ChrisArchitect 4 hours ago ago
    • wglb 3 hours ago ago

      The register article is better.

      • rconti 2 hours ago ago

        Every once in awhile, someone utters a truly unique statement.