For the life of me I can't understand why so many are obsessed with LLMs as search engines and knowledge databases when it seems like it's impossible for them to be that.
For the first puzzle she had to put the cities Tokyo, Paris, LA, and Brisbane (where we live) in order. Using colours, since she can’t read yet!
Then we had to discuss why those cities were in that order (answer below).
For the video, I figured I would doctor a Google search to land on a page explaining the answer. The actual article I found that mostly worked was about 12 results down.
Then I tried Bing’s Chat instead. It spat out the correct answer in 2 sentences. Deus ex machina indeed! (The four cities are the Summer Olympic hosts, 2020-2032).
So I disagree that it’s impossible. And I can absolutely see the value - asking “why are these cities in this order?” is a real question, like “what might be causing the squeaking sound when my car brakes?” or “what was the movie Audrey Hepburn made with the photographer?”
Search Engines aren’t great for those kind of questions - just google “What’s a good brownie recipe?”. LLMs can give the user exactly what they want, or even prompt for the additional extra context.
Not that they will always be correct; hence the flaw.