This is hard to believe. I asked ChatGPT "What is the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter in 2025?" and it replied "...April
27, 2025. Even though the Orthodox Church calculates Easter
based on the Julian calendar, the corresponding date in the
Gregorian calendar (used in most of the world today) is April 27."
But I asked Google Search the same question and it replied
"In 2025, Orthodox Easter, also known as Pascha, will be
celebrated on Sunday, April 20th, according to the Gregorian
calendar." Everything else returned in the Google search
confirms that latter answer. It looks like ChatGPT really
blew this one.

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In article <pan$59bae$5c77e9f3$f94b8dd6$974d543e@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

This is hard to believe. I asked ChatGPT "What is the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter in 2025?" and it replied "...April
27, 2025. Even though the Orthodox Church calculates Easter
based on the Julian calendar, the corresponding date in the
Gregorian calendar (used in most of the world today) is April 27."
But I asked Google Search the same question and it replied
"In 2025, Orthodox Easter, also known as Pascha, will be
celebrated on Sunday, April 20th, according to the Gregorian
calendar." Everything else returned in the Google search
confirms that latter answer. It looks like ChatGPT really
blew this one.

Look like LLM is failing!
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:59:11 -0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:

In article <pan$59bae$5c77e9f3$f94b8dd6$974d543e@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

This is hard to believe. I asked ChatGPT "What is the Gregorian date of >>Orthodox Easter in 2025?" and it replied "...April 27, 2025. Even though >>the Orthodox Church calculates Easter based on the Julian calendar, the >>corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar (used in most of the world >>today) is April 27."
But I asked Google Search the same question and it replied "In 2025, >>Orthodox Easter, also known as Pascha, will be celebrated on Sunday,
April 20th, according to the Gregorian calendar." Everything else
returned in the Google search confirms that latter answer. It looks like >>ChatGPT really blew this one.

Look like LLM is failing!

Further investigation shows that the bot simply can't compute
the dates in the future. Here is a link to my original
queries:

https://chatgpt.com/c/67ded1c2-4198-8013-a16b-d1e82557f868

Initially I wanted to know how often the two Easters and
Passover coincide. It volunteered that in 2011 and 2034 they do,
but didn't mention this year, in which they do coincide.
So I went on to compare ChatGPT with Google searches, and
discover that although the years of coincidence
were correct, the correct Gregorian dates for 2034 are
April 9 for the Easters and April 3-11 for Passover.

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:07:02 +0000, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 23/03/2025 07:57, Charles Packer wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:59:11 -0000 (UTC), The Doctor wrote:

In article <pan$59bae$5c77e9f3$f94b8dd6$974d543e@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

This is hard to believe. I asked ChatGPT "What is the Gregorian date of >>>> Orthodox Easter in 2025?" and it replied "...April 27, 2025. Even though >>>> the Orthodox Church calculates Easter based on the Julian calendar, the >>>> corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar (used in most of the world >>>> today) is April 27."
But I asked Google Search the same question and it replied "In 2025,
Orthodox Easter, also known as Pascha, will be celebrated on Sunday,
April 20th, according to the Gregorian calendar." Everything else
returned in the Google search confirms that latter answer. It looks like >>>> ChatGPT really blew this one.

Look like LLM is failing!

Further investigation shows that the bot simply can't compute
the dates in the future. Here is a link to my original
queries:

https://chatgpt.com/c/67ded1c2-4198-8013-a16b-d1e82557f868

Initially I wanted to know how often the two Easters and
Passover coincide. It volunteered that in 2011 and 2034 they do,
but didn't mention this year, in which they do coincide.
So I went on to compare ChatGPT with Google searches, and
discover that although the years of coincidence
were correct, the correct Gregorian dates for 2034 are
April 9 for the Easters and April 3-11 for Passover.

Does it do anything but repeat "facts"
that it has "read"? Answers that it
was told?

As I understand it, what it does is decide, for each word it outputs,
what the next most likely word is, and outputs that. It is possible
that, as it builds a response, the options narrow down, but I don't
know that.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:50:16 -0700, Paul S Person wrote:

Does it do anything but repeat "facts" that it has "read"? Answers that
it was told?

As I understand it, what it does is decide, for each word it outputs,
what the next most likely word is, and outputs that. It is possible
that, as it builds a response, the options narrow down, but I don't know that.

Although the chat thought that "this year" was 2024
(see last question in my dialogue with it): https://chatgpt.com/c/67ded1c2-4198-8013-a16b-d1e82557f868

it appeared to do a terrific job of writing a physics chapter
just for me:
https://chatgpt.com/c/67c8fc3e-caa4-8013-9044-f0efcdee3e34

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