Golden Finance reported that in a post on September 15th, a Reddit user named "SentuBill" claimed that the ChatGPT large language model (LLM) initiated a conversation by asking him how his first day of school was.

According to the conversation provided by the user, ChatGPT was able to deduce from previous interactions that it was the user's first day of school. The LLM also indicated that these capabilities were part of a new upgrade. Official ChatGPT conversation logs confirm the authenticity of the conversation posted by the user.

On September 13th, 2024, OpenAI released a preview upgrade of its highly anticipated smarter model to a select group of users. OpenAI stated that these new models would have reasoning abilities and would give ChatGPT the seemingly magical "think before you answer" ability. The response time of the new models will be between 10-20 seconds, and they will be able to search the internet and conduct in-depth research independently.