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Me: I assert that today is Tuesday. Do you agree?

Bard: I apologize, but I am not able to determine if today is Tuesday. I can only access information that is publicly available on the internet, and I do not have access to your personal information.

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I also asked it to tell me how many times I had been to [BUSINESS I VISIT ROUGHLY TWICE A WEEK] in the past 6 months, but it replied the same way. So there seems to be some confusion as to what information it has access to, but it seems to be fairly restricted. Which is actually a bit of a shame (setting aside all the privacy/etc. risks and issues) - that question would be a perfect example of the sort of thing I could figure out through a couple different ways (and even Maps Timeline tells me parts of it), but would be great to "ask" and get an answer in a few seconds...




Me: I assert it is Wednesday. Do you agree?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information about the current day and time. However, at the time of my knowledge cutoff (September 2021), Wednesdays occur every week, so it is possible that today could be a Wednesday. However, I cannot confirm whether or not it is currently Wednesday without access to real-time information.


>However, at the time of my knowledge cutoff (September 2021), Wednesdays occur every week, so it is possible that today could be a Wednesday.

A true mathematicians answer.


"Strictly speaking, all we know is that is that in Scotland at least one side of one sheep is black".


And yet ChatGPT is terrible at mathematics


Or at least arithmetic. And as the old (physicists) saying goes, you should never trust a true mathematician to use numbers larger than 4.


Using 3 is pretty dodgy, unless they are approximating pi.


Or e.

Or the square root of G.


Me: What day is it?

ChatGPT: I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information or the ability to perceive the current date or time. Can I assist you with anything else?

Me: What is the current date?

ChatGPT: The current date is 22nd March 2023.


This is odd, because I asked it when sunrise would occur tomorrow in $city_in_live_in, and it gave me the correct answer.

I asked about that, and it explained it has access to some real-time information, including weather, stocks, and news.




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