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LESSON 3 · AI Explained: From Buzz to Basics

PAUSE TO THINK

Can ChatGPT tell you today's date on its own?

No — it has no sense of 'now'

A model has no internal clock or calendar. Ask it the date and it will guess from its training data, often confidently stating the wrong day or year. It only knows the real time if a live tool feeds it in.

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