Hmm. But it is not an oracle. I wonder if you prompted it as an expert in palaeontology it may perform better.

That said, I do wonder if its corpus of training data contained that much information on your subject. It is rather niche is it - compared to cooking recipes, or basic software development techniques of 2 years ago, or chemistry, maths and physics.

My friend is a leading research chemist and he, and one other person in china, are working on this one particular field - individually - so there would be little information out there. I asked ChatGPT 4o to give an overview of what he was doing based on the little information I knew. He was astounded. It got it spot on. I asked it to elaborate and to come up with some new direction for research and the ideas it spat out were those he had considered and more.