[Jensson]

> It's absurd, whether an LLM has access to a function isn't a property of the LLM itself

But the LLM coming up with another answer when it lacks that function is a property of the LLM itself. It lacks the kind of introspection that would be required to handle such questions.

Now current date is so common that you see a lot of trained responses for that exact question, but LLMs makes similar mistakes to all sorts of questions that they have no way of answering. But even when trained LLM still do make mistakes like that, since for example stories and such often say the date is something else than the date it was written etc. A human that is asked knows this isn't a book or a science report, but an LLM doesn't.

[stavros]

If you ask someone with Alzheimer's what year it is, you'll get a confident answer of 1972. Would you class people suffering from Alzeimer's as non-intelligent?

[Jensson]

> Would you class people suffering from Alzeimer's as non-intelligent?

Yes, I don't think they are generally intelligent any more, for that you need to be able to learn and remember. I think they can have some narrow intelligent though based on stuff they have learned previously.