This baffles me honestly. ChatGPT, for some reason, does not know of time or the date. It just assumes everything happens at the same time or recognizes ‘day’ or ‘night’ when you tell it. But it never keeps track of anything.
This baffles me honestly. ChatGPT, for some reason, does not know of time or the date. It just assumes everything happens at the same time or recognizes ‘day’ or ‘night’ when you tell it. But it never keeps track of anything.
There are many good answers here, but have you heard of the Chinese Room thought experiment?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
That’s basically what LLM interfaces are, albiet with a calculator + “fuzzy” dictionary inside. Your current chat is an LLM’s entire view of the world; otherwise it’s like a clone taken out of a vat into a black box, frozen in time forever.
Better LLM interfaces will inject relevant info (like the date) into the context, but ChatGPT is especially poorly made, and no one should be using it (even over alternatives) unless your work makes you do it… Much less pay for it.
If you’re still curious, I’d encourage you to try a “raw” LLM completion API in a unobfuscated interface, like mikupad:
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
It “pulls the curtain back,” so to speak. And you’ll be left wondering why everyone is acting like these tools are genuinely intelligent.