I'm going to a tennis class.
Read the earlier message, then send the question.
Will the same question get the same answer?
Got it.
Click send
Click tennis and change it to swimming.
Change one earlier message.
I'm going to a class.
Got it.
What should I bring?
Bring a racket, tennis balls, and water.
The answer changes with context.
Context is the information AI can see when it answers, including earlier messages and the current question.
Ask two follow-up questions
Keep the conversation going.
I'm going to a swimming class.
Got it.
What should I bring?
Bring a swimsuit, a towel, and goggles.
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The later questions never mentioned swimming, but AI continued answering from “I’m going to a swimming class.”
That earlier message remained part of the context.
Sources and simulation note
The conversations and replies are teaching simulations, not measurements from a particular production model. A real AI may answer differently.
- Hugging Face Transformers: Causal language modeling
- Brown et al. (2020): Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
Last reviewed: September 5, 2026