why chat gpt cannot answer realtime questions?

Question

ChatGPT is a language model that relies on pre-existing knowledge and does not have real-time access to the internet. Its responses are based on training data and do not reflect current events or developments.

Answer 1

Hi @Dhanitha Sumanaweera

Thanks for visiting our forum. Teams tag is mainly focused on the general issue of Microsoft Teams troubleshooting. Based on your description, this problem is related to ChatGPT, which we do not support. The following is for informational purposes only:

Yes. ChatGPT cannot answer real-time questions because it does not have access to the internet or any external sources of information. It only uses the knowledge that it learned from its training data, which consists of millions of online conversations from various domains. Therefore, it may not be able to respond to questions that require up-to-date or specific information, such as current events, facts, or personal details.

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Answer 2

@Dhanitha Sumanaweera Greetings & Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum!

Your Understanding is correct. Azure OpenAI Service does not have direct access to the internet, but it provides access to several cognitive services that can be used to retrieve information from external sources in real-time.

The training data used to train the language models provided by Azure OpenAI Service is constantly being updated, and new versions of the models are released periodically to reflect the latest developments in natural language processing and machine learning.

The specific date range of the training data used to train each model may vary depending on the model and the specific version being used. However, the training data used to train the models is up-to-date and reflects the latest developments in the field of natural language processing.

Azure OpenAI now supports automatic updates for select model deployments. On models where automatic update support is available.

You can also Auto update to latest models. When Auto-update to latest is selected your model deployment will be automatically updated. See Model updates for more details.

You can also customize a model for your application.

For latest updates and releases, please refer What's new in Azure OpenAI Service page.

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