GPT-4 has been released

[gleem]

We can start the madness all over again ChatGPT has been replaced with ChatGPTplus ChatGPT based on GTP-4.

GPt-4 is the long-awaited upgrade of the popular GPT-3.5 and has several significant enhancements.

1. It can see and understand images: whatever that means.
2. It is harder to trick: now there's a downright challenge.
3. It has a longer memory: It can stay on topic for up to 64,000 words vs 8,000 for vers. 3.5
4. It is better in more languages.
5. It has multiple personalities: its verbosity, tone, and style are more readily changed.

For details see https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/5-ways-gpt-4-outsmarts-chatgpt/

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The pace of generative AI has been dizzying.

 

[jedishrfu]

Woo Hoo! Time to play some more.

We are entering the era of vicarious programming where we ask the AI to write the program, poem, song, play, picture, or video of our dreams for us.

The next few years we could have immersive on-demand interactive movies where what you say generates new scenes ala like on Star Trek Next Gen where Data challenges the computer to make an original Sherlock Holmes story with Prof Moriarty as the chief villain.

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Professor_Moriarty_(Star_Trek)

 

[Filip Larsen]

Arstechnica also has write-up on it, noting its high performance on (selected) types of exams and test, and how it (apparently) is able to analyze and describe why something is funny, a task deemed very hard in 2012.

https://arstechnica.com/information...-gpt-4-its-next-generation-ai-language-model/

 

[Filip Larsen]

https://arstechnica.com/information...-see-whether-gpt-4-could-take-over-the-world/

As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model's emergent capabilities—including "power-seeking behavior," self-replication, and self-improvement.

Both reassuring and somewhat alarming I suppose. Personally, my greatest concern right now is merely the huge potential this technology has for misuse once (some) humans eye the opportunity, as they already has, to spin them a truckload of (more) wealth. However, if researchers eventually manage to remove or severely limit hallucination without hampering emergence of new capabilities in a future version, then I will move extinction back to the top of my worry list.

 

[Filip Larsen]

https://arstechnica.com/information...plugins-that-can-interface-ai-with-the-world/

On Thursday, OpenAI announced a plugin system for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The plugins give ChatGPT the ability to interact with the wider world through the Internet, including booking flights, ordering groceries, browsing the web, and more. Plugins are bits of code that tell ChatGPT how to use an external resource on the Internet.
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For those who aren't aware: you write an OpenAPI manifest for your API, use human language descriptions for everything, and that's it. You let the model figure out how to auth, chain calls, process data in between, format it for viewing, etc. There's absolutely zero glue code.

(This is technically more a bit of news related to ChatGPT, which is the web/app interface to a specific GTP version such as GPT-4 which this thread is about).