Comment by irishcoffee
1 month ago
A few years ago if you asked an LLM what the date was, it would tell you the date it was trained, weeks-to-months earlier. Now it gives the correct date.
What you've proven is that LLMs leverage web search, which I think we've known about for a while.
Their system prompt includes the current date and/or their default “tools” includes a set of date and time utilities.
Even with search of the AI doesn't know your time zone it can schedule things wrong. You ask it to do something tomorrow, but it ends up doing it later on the same day.
Gemini now "knows the time", I was using it in December and it was still lost about dates/intervals...
Yeah, the chat log they saved had the correct date. What's your point?