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by fakedang 1136 days ago
Honestly, your second question on LGBT rights in Turkey might not be an easy one for any LLM, unless they were fed an entire vault of information and allowed to connect the dots. For one, you would need Turkey's LGBTQ -specific coverage, which is comparatively low compared to coverage on Musk. Then you would need to know the opposition candidate's views on LGBTQ, which isn't so outwardly evident, especially since LGBTQ+ rights is essentially anathema outside Istanbul (or even in it). Then the model (or the individual) would need to be able to connect that knowledge with knowledge of the recent elections.

All in all, it's possible in due time, but very challenging. Even for a human for that matter - I wouldn't know how to answer that question myself, even after Googling about it.

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Well this kind of my point. Questions that are hard for an unfamiliar person to answer even after googling are where these chat LLMs really shine. Having a chat interface to simply search the web for related concepts is not all that useful. It's not totally useless, but there's not much value there if you know how to use a search engine well. "Connecting the dots" and tying the knowledge together is where a lot of the power is, and you don't get that through search augmentation.