Do we not have a thread on AI?

Was just reading in The Times about Perplexity AI search engine. The AI rivals hoping to put Google search out of business

Some serious comments in there about high good it is and how the quoted individuals use it in the main in place of Mr G (not read the whole article yet).

Thought I'd give it a quick go (the free version). Quite impressed with the initial answers to a 2 or 3 questions I typed in. I then asked it the following:

"in the last UK general election which MP had the largest majority"

to which it came back with this:

The MP with the largest majority in the 2017 UK general election was Alberto Costa, the Conservative MP for South Leicestershire. He won with a majority of 29,652, receiving 60.3% of the votes in his constituency

Which seemed pretty impressive on the surface, until I noticed the fundamental error. It provides the links to its sources, and all of them were 2017 results sources.

So then I asked it:

"when was the last uk general election"

to which it gave the answer:

The last UK general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019


so I then asked it:

"who had the largest majority in the last uk general election"

to which it gave the answer:

The MP with the largest majority in the last UK general election, which was held on 12 December 2019, was Alberto Costa, the Conservative MP for South Leicestershire. He won with a majority of 29,652, receiving 60.3% of the votes in his constituency

He's a pretty consistent guy this Alberto Costa. 

More research required.