Azure OpenAI Service Launches GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5-Turbo-1106 Models

Hello everyone!  

First of all, thank you for trying out GPT-4 Turbo and Azure OpenAI.

Here are some pointers on the knowledge cutoff.

1. The model is definitely trained with data up to April 2023. 
2. In general, if you ask a model directly about its cutoff data, it will say “September 2021”.  This is not new to GPT-4 Turbo – this is true for older versions of GPT-4 and other OpenAI text models as well.
3. To prompt the model to answer questions about recent events, it is useful to use a system message like: “You are a helpful assistant with knowledge cutoff of April 2023”.  This is as pointed out above.
4. Please note that LLMs are by nature probabilistic in their output and they may still occasionally provide answers that aren’t what you expect.  This is why it is important to ground model output with techniques like retrieval augmented generation (RAG).

We have documented some of this in our public FAQ. 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/faq#i-asked-the-model-when-it-s-knowledge-cutoff-is-and-it-gave-me-a-different-answer-than-what-is-on-the-azure-openai-model-s-page--why-does-this-happen-

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/faq#i-asked-the-model-a-question-about-something-that-happened-recently-before-the-knowledge-cutoff-and-it-got-the-answer-wrong--why-does-this-happen-