[vizzier]

> Me: What is your knowledge cut off date?

> ChatGPT: My knowledge cutoff is *June 2024*. I can also use live browsing to fetch more recent information when needed.

It is unsurprising that it thinks next year would be 2025, given that this token generator lives in June 2024.

[lproven]

> it thinks

This is your mistake right here. It doesn't think. It's a text generator. It can no more think about what year it is than Swiftkey on your phone "thinks" what year it is when you type

NEXT YEAR WILL BE

and press the middle button.

[mtts]

I'm as bearish as anyone on the current AI hype, but this particular ship has sailed. Research is revealing these humongous neural networks of weights for next token prediction to exhibit underlying structures that seem to map in some way to a form of knowledge about the world that is, however imperfectly, extracted from all the text they're trained on.

Arguing that this is meaningfully different from what happens in our own brains is not something I would personally be comfortable with.