Artificial intelligence assistants are rapidly conquering the market and winning the hearts of mainly English-speaking users around the world. Their seemingly comprehensive knowledge on every subject becomes a point of reference for our surrounding reality (just as Wikipedia once became a mandatory point in the bibliography of every high school essay). But are assistants like Gemini or ChatGPT really able to keep up with the pace of changes in the modern world, without requiring an endless amount of computational power to process tens of thousands of news produced by (still) human journalists every day?
First Doubt
To find out that it’s not entirely possible, all you have to do is use assistants such as Copilot or ChatGPT (in version 4, i.e., the paid version). Due to technical limitations, artificial intelligence cannot answer questions about who will win this year’s presidential elections or indicate the contenders for the Mister World title. To know these answers, it must visit pages with relevant information found using… search engines.
The first reaction to such a query will be… information that the assistant asks the Bing service (Microsoft’s search engine) for information on the requested topic. Only after reviewing an unspecified number of search results will it draft an answer, presented as usual in a very…
