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Hopefully the end user of these products know something about LLMs and why asking a question such as "List the college majors of all of the Fortune 100 CEOs" is not really suited well for them.


Perhaps you can enlighten us as to why this isn't a good use case for an LLM during a deep research workflow.


LLMs ought to be able to gracefully handle it, but the OP comment


Urgh I fat-fingered this partial comment, and realized it too late.


For those that don't know, including myself, why would this question be particularly difficult for an LLM?


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You are a bit behind. All the "deep research" tools, and paid AI search tools in general, combine LLMs with search. When I do research on you.com it routinely searches a 100 sites. Even Google searches get Gemini'd now. I had to chuckle because your very link provides a demonstration.


> You are a bit behind.

Quite the opposite. I'm familiar enough with these systems to know that asking the question "List the college majors of all Fortune 100 CEOs" is not going to get you a correct answer, Gemini and you.com included. I am happy to be proven wrong. :)


But the whole point of these “deep research” models is to.. you know.. do research.

LLMs by themselves have not been good at this, but the whole point is to find a way to make them good.


If you know more than others, it would be great to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Comments that only declare how much you know, without sharing any of it, are less useful, and ultimately off-topic.

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OpenAI and Gemini literally produce the correct results.

It seems like you don't understand or haven't tried their deep research tools.


Perplexity markets itself as a search tool. So even if LLMs are not search engines, Perplexity definitely is trying to be one.


Hopefully my boss groks how special I am and won't assign me tasks I consider to be beneath my intelligence (and beyond my capabilities).


If "deep research" can't even handle this, I don't think I would trust it with even more complex tasks




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