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Yeah, I tried it yesterday through perplexity.ai for query "cheapest flights from prague" and got answer:

"The cheapest flights from Prague can be found to the United States, with a one-way ticket costing $209 and a round-trip ticket costing $368[1]. The most popular route is from Prague to Los Angeles, with the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours being $315[1]."

Completely ignoring reality of Wizzair, Ryanair, Easyjet, Eurowings, where you can buy one way tickets for like 30 dollars, so while it may be somehow usable, it's not really reliable.

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Seems like the model has some kind of a USA centric worldview bias? Why would it consider flights to the USA, LA in particular? Was this where you were located when you did the query? That would be impressive :)

>Seems like the model has some kind of a USA centric worldview bias?

Pretty much everything in English now days has that tendency. It is quite annoying tbh. It is no longer a US centric world any more.

You are onto something, if I search in Czech for "cheap air tickets from Prague" I get better results:

Levneletenkyzprahy.cz[1], Jaknaletenky.cz[2], Levneletenky.org[3] and Skyscanner.cz[4] all offer flights from Prague to London, with prices ranging from 490 Kč to 1 200 Kč depending on the season and airline[1][2][3][5].

490Kc/22USD - 1200Kc/54USD

Not sure why is exactly London specific, but it's for sure more useful than those expensive US flights.

No, I am in Prague, searching for cheap flights from Prague, no VPN, Prague IP address.

It simply isn't capable of anything like this. What is Microsoft thinking?

Eh, the model you're able to query through chatgpt is trained on data from 2021. It fundamentally can't answer up-to-date information like that for now.

That might change with this partnership. We can't say at this point in time.

These airlines are around and offer busfare-comparable flight prices for a decade at least

Not in 2021.

Yes, they did, there were still cheap flights in 2021, for sure easier to find than quoted cheap US flights.

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