GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

It seems like many people focus on reasoning capabilities of the GPT models.

The me the real value is in the industrial scale pattern recognition capabilities. I can indicate something I vaguely know or ask it to expand on a concept for further research.

Within the last hours I have used it to kick-start my research on the AT1 bond and why Credit Suisse let them default and it helped me recall that it was the GenServer pattern I was looking for in Elixir when you have a facade that calls to an independent process.

How do you know that the research you’ve conducted is accurate, rather than just precise?