From now on, ChatGPT knows everything until the end of December 2023, but with a little subtlety to know

OpenAI has made sure to allow ChatGPT to be able to dig into the latest information. But it does not offer this possibility to all of its users!

When it was released, the AI ​​developed by Sam Altman’s teams impressed the public with the breadth of its knowledge. At the time, it had only one major fault, that of seeing its knowledge of the world stop at what had happened before September 2021. A fault since corrected by OpenAI, which brought ChatGPT up to date by allowing it to do research on the web. But while the AI ​​knows what happened recently, it doesn’t offer the information to everyone.

ChatGPT is the page

To find out how far the knowledge of the star chatbot of the year 2023 extends, you can search for the information on Google… or, in fact, ask it directly! This is what the Clubic editorial team has done for you. And the AI ​​didn’t have to be difficult to answer us: its information goes until December 2023.

Suffice to say that few things escape artificial intelligence. And as proof of his up-to-dateness, we asked him when OpenAI’s DevDay took place, during which many of the firm’s new features were presented. He was able to answer correctly (namely November 6, 2023).

Free ChatGPT sees less far

So far so good. But as you may have noticed from the screen captures, these questions were asked of the GPT-4 version of ChatGPT, that is, the one which is only accessible through the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription. However, when we ask the same question to version GPT 3-5 of ChatGPT, the free version of the chatbot, the answer is not the same.

As we can see, this time, AI knowledge no longer stops at the end of last year, but at January 2022, that is, more than two years ago! Quite a departure for all those who like to use ChatGPT as another search engine that can offer them fairly fresh news. Enough to push some people to take the plunge and take out the paid subscription?