Comment by xlii

IMO the „thought” process is completely fake.

I wanted o3 to succeed so I gave more and more details. Every attempt was approx. 8 minute and it took 1h in total.

The extra input I provided (in order):

- belt of location of width of 40km (results and searches were made outside of the range)

- explicitly stated cities to omit (ignored instruction)

- construction date (wasn’t used in searches)

- OSM amenity (townhall) - streetnumber (it insisted that it’s incorrect and keep giving other result) - at that point there were only 6 results from overpass

- another photo with actual partial name of the city

- 8 minutes later it correlated it found using flag colors in front of the building

As others stated this „thought” process is completely hallucinating. IMO you either fall into bucket or good luck finding it.

On the other hand I decided to tryout Gemini for some personal project and I found responses much better than GPTs. Not about correctness but in „attitude” form.