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My initial impression is (compared to ChatGPT 3.5-turbo) - not impressed.

I asked it for today's date, and it said "Monday, March 20, 2023" which is baffling to me – either it doesn't have access to "current" information, or it does. But off by one?

"What is the knowledge cutoff of your training data?" > My training data was cut off in September 2021. This means that I do not have access to any information that was published after that date. However, I am able to access and process information that was published before that date.

Then I tried to get it to help me with finding some papers, but it continuously misinterpreted my prompts, or gave me lackluster results.

Back to GPT I go.



Almost all such systems are passed todays datetime as part of their prompt engineering. That’s different from when it’s model was created.


It has data as of yesterday, ingested through Knowledge Graph I think (could potentially be something more raw too). For example, it can answer stock price questions from yesterday.


Did you ask it the time as well as the date? It gave me it in PST when I am in GMT. So the day could be offset depending when you asked.

It did give me the time 3 minutes in the future though.


I asked Bard for the best Arsenal team and it was able to choose current players. It was also able to say how many goals they scored in current season as of today.




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