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"Latitude 41" is a business name?

If you gave me this prompt, I'd say "Which Columbus? None of the ones I know about are at a latitude of 41 degrees north or south?"



That is fine and would have even been a better reply. I connected to a VPN in Belgium, opened a private browsing window, and Yandex, Google, and DuckDuckGo all find "latitude 41 in Columbus" as the first search result.

It figured out I was looking for a place but completely failed to identify I already provided proximity information and asked for proximity information in its reply.


It's an interesting question to ask a machine. It's definitely ambiguous. As a person I might respond "What's Latitude 41"?




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