One of the kids' and my great consternations around large language model (LLM) AIs is the variety of claims that they can't match the performance of a search engine, and well yeah, They're Not Search Engines! They're a completely different thing. They're sentence completion engines that have the entire Internet at some set date at their disposal. They organize the information they were trained on into a greater than 1,000 dimensional space (in most cases) and then do a dot product of what you've told them so far with that space to determine what they should say next. Having said all that, after performing the following search on Google this morning: "what do you call a cross frequency radio contact" and getting no useful results, I headed over to ChatGPT to chat with the app about our fictional friend, Penelope . She's a programming and ham radio expert who went away on an expedition. The kids and I are communicating with her via ham radio (all of...