alt Hacker NewsI agree that the web search tool probably is pretty bad. However a smart model would never hallucinate impossible weather data if the search tool failed.
I'm sure you can get some out of it if you babysit it with an optimized prompt, harness, etc and you can tolerate some failures. But when I try to run the ChatGPT prompts from my history, even if I pick the easier ones, it's hopeless.
I'd like to have a local agent on the phone with wikipedia level knowledge. But you probably need more like 30B params.
I use the 4B on my phone and it seems to work fine without tool calls. So it's definitely an issue with that and not the model itself. I'll play around and see if I can fix that, you might also try using the Searxng MCP as it's a better web search engine one.