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It's nothing more than surface level though. Their "knowledge" is limited to whatever is present in their training data, and any claims it makes outside of that are manufactured based on statistics and it's knowledge of word order, not actual understanding of actual facts.
Just because it gets it right sometimes doesn't mean it knows it's right. Because, again, the only thing LLMs actually understand is word order.
No it’s not limited to their current training data. Like I said, they can search the internet, get information from websites or available studies, summarize and use that in their answers.
Again, how do you know?
Because I've studied LLMs and the underlying concepts they're based on.