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by rajeevk 920 days ago
I tried asking a very specific objective question: what is the speed of light?

Although it answered, but it also spitted lot of unnecessary stuff.

The speed of light in a vacuum, denoted as "c," is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 meters per second (186,000 miles per second). This constant is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter or energy, and thus any signal, can travel. According to the special theory of relativity, the speed of light is constant and does not change with the motion of the observer. The speed of light has significant implications in various fields, including physics, computing, and communication. In physics, it serves as the single limiting velocity in the universe, being an upper bound to the propagation speed of signals and the speeds of all material particles. In computing, the speed of light fixes the ultimate minimum communication delay. In time of flight measurements, the speed of light can be used to measure large distances. The speed of light was first measured to high precision in 1879 by the Michelson-Morley Experiment. Since then, it has been used to define international standard measurements like the meter, mile, foot, and inch.

It is more like a search engine. In fact Google search does much better than this. It gives very precise answer.

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Your question wasn't specific though. A specific question would be how fast does light travel in a vacuum.

When I asked it that specific question it replied in two sentences.