[powerset]

"BTW, it tool 4o less than a second to produce that answer." (I presume that by "tool" you mean "took" and by "4o" you mean "GPT-4o".)

The speed is impressive, but I would be interested to know what sort of internal caching GPT-4o does for questions and answers.

Since your relatively sophisticated question, "Explain why increasing the minimum wage hurts entry level workers", is on a topic of current interest, it is possible that the answer is already in GPT's cache and quickly accessible via the three important linguistic components "Subject: increasing [the] minimum wage", "Verb: hurts" and "Object: entry level workers". (Computer parsing of such sentences has been around for many years.)

In other words, GPT-4o might be able to give the answer without consulting its full database and performing complicated analyses on what it finds therein.

It would also be interesting to know if GPT-4o makes use of a sophisticated CDN (Content Distribution Network) to offload -- and thus speed up -- some of the "simpler" queries to regional caches. (This has been done for years for video streaming and other data-hungry services.)

[RoosterRedux]

Perhaps when I said tool, i was baiting you, Karen.

[RoosterRedux]

Come on, Karen. Spew.

[RoosterRedux]

Come on troll. I am one of the least of the old Freepers. We have seen your type for decades.

Spew.

[RoosterRedux]

I owe you an apology. Sorry for calling you a Karen. I just reread your comment and your point is well-taken.

Again, sorry for being a jackass.