While ordinary chatbots respond to questions within seconds, this Deep Research AI system may easily take thirty minutes or more to produce its response to complex research requests, being widely regarded as the most powerful such system that is currently available to the general public.

Given the likely computer resources required, it's hardly surprising that OpenAI strictly limits its usage, with regular accounts allowed only 10 full-strength runs in a given month, and premium accounts priced at a monthly fee of $200 allowed 125 such runs. Moreover, for difficult tasks such as fact-checking a long, complex article, the system frequently fails, breaking or freezing perhaps one-third of the time, with all those failed runs counting towards the monthly total. Even when the runs are completed, the results are occasionally garbled, sometimes providing several duplicated partial runs, all merged together with the completed one.

Given these problems, the system is obviously far from perfect.

But nonetheless, the results it regularly provides are nothing short of astounding. Never in a million years would I have believed that a software system could produce such detailed, coherent, and cogent responses, far superior to the fictional capabilities of the Starfleet shipboard computer in the popular Star Trek television series that I remember watching as a child.

For the last three generations, computer scientists have confronted the famous Turing Test, seeking to produce a software system that could successfully pass itself off as human in lengthy exchanges. Not only has this AI chatbot system now completely blown past that benchmark, but I suspect that if it and several actual humans were together subjected to the Turing Test by someone ignorant of these recent technological developments, the AI would be judged human and one or more of the human participants judged a synthetic software simulation.

Last month I published an article describing my growing use of this powerful Deep Research AI for the fact-checking of my own large body of work. I emphasized that since so many of my major articles contain such highly controversial subject matter, they especially benefit from being reviewed and having their findings buttressed by a favorable fact-checking report provided by such a powerful research tool:

Over the last few years I have produced a huge body of work analyzing many of the most important world events of the last century or more, and often coming to extremely controversial conclusions, conclusions that would have enormous impact upon our entire society if they were judged correct and widely accepted. I have always done my best to adhere to the strictest standards of accuracy and care in writing these sometimes inflammatory articles, and as a result I have regularly declared that I would still stand by at least 99% of everything I have written in this huge body of controversial material.