It’s worse than a human for most things since it doesn’t know truth from lie and will confidently say both as if they’re fact.
I think that's where you're wrong. It's really not worse than a human. It's smarter than like 90% of the population already. No it's not perfect but it doesn't have to be. Humans literally hallucinate and lie, all the time. AI hallucinations is an athropomorphism, AI metaphorically hallucinates, humans actually literally do.