Yes, I was recently surprised to see that ChatGPT has finally learned how to locate Rice's most recently granted patent. It's only taken, what, 3 or 4 years?
I suppose if you're a ChatGPT lover, you aren't surprised it got something right. And you probably think this validates your love for it*. But I'd like to pause and point out that it took ChatGPT years to figure out something I can teach humans in just a couple minutes, on multiple platforms. Not only that, I can teach humans how to do it using better sources.
Observe:
Yes, this is correct, I checked it. I also checked it using a better resource than Justia Patents. Why is genAI so obsessed with Justia?! Any time I ask for patent info, that's their favorite site to use. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone else who favors that site.
Anyway, I was surprised to see that something finally managed to get this question right, after asking many different LLMs the same thing over the past several years.
If you think it's hard item to produce, please come talk to me. I can help.
*Do you depend on ChatGPT in your daily life? Do you think it makes everything better? Please see this article about how it is literally making your brain worse: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872