Sure I used AI a few times this year. Got some good answers and some laughably wrong ones. Which is typical for AI.
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I've had AI answer that a public figure was older than a second, then citing their birth dates, confidently "reiterate" that the first was younger than the second. On a historical question, AI casually situated an event "following" one that took place forty years later, having included years of both. Given a story problem on which I said I'd calculated the answer to be 70, AI responded that 70 was incorrect, stated the equation to be used, and that the correct result was 70.
All these examples are recent. Next will be news that the IRS is using AI to audit returns.
Never trust AI to do math or work with numbers. I asked some standard deduction questions. Totally nutty answers. It did answer "confidently" though. AI is like a 5 year old with the data of the whole internet but no understanding.