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OpenAI's Will Depue proposes adding timestamps to chat messages to solve the models' lack of temporal awareness

Training would drop timestamps half the time for robustness.

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will depue@willdepue#249inAI

i get the feeling messages in chat/codex don’t have timestamps still, model doesn’t have a good sense for time? bump to oai friends: if so i have a renderer pr from a while back, codex could 1 shot. just edit the renderer, drop it out half the time, run a derisk would be so nice!

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ben hylak@benhylak

@willdepue great minds

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will depue@willdepue

reasonably i understand people are hesitant about splitbraining — old data might not have timestamp info & i don't think the api would want to support this — but i'm pretty sure splitbraining already happens/it'll be ok if you just drop it out aggressively!

will depue@willdepue

i get the feeling messages in chat/codex don’t have timestamps still, model doesn’t have a good sense for time? bump to oai friends: if so i have a renderer pr from a while back, codex could 1 shot. just edit the renderer, drop it out half the time, run a derisk would be so nice!

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