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Comment by claysmithr

7 hours ago

I wonder when AI will be able to discern the passage of time

It already does time in prompt-blocks. It knows time is linear and what just happened, what happened before that, and what happened before that.

  • When I tried to use it as an AI CEO and Life Coach, it never was able to discern time passing, what I've already done, what needed to be done. It just said the same stuff over and over, stuff I've already done. That and it's kind of stuck in the era it was trained in. If it felt time passing like a human maybe it would be conscious?

    Nevertheless not having a sense of time makes it really bad at planning anything. I used Gemini Pro.

Can't you just give it the time in each prompt? Would that work?

I've seen this mentioned a few times though, so I think maybe it's more complicated than this?

Altman has estimated one year until ChatGPT is capable of measuring time passed.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-mis...

  • Can’t tell if you are being sarcastic but Altman’s whole job is to make bullshit near future predictions about rapid development of AI in the public.

  • There's no need to "estimate" it. "Time" is not something built into training and sampling a generative distribution. He might as well have told you your Naive Bayes email filters will measure time passed.