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What to Expect When You're Expecting ... GPT-4

posted by hubie on Wednesday January 11 2023, @11:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the GPT-3-is-so-last-month dept.

fliptop writes:

Although ChatGPT can write about anything, it is also easily confused:

As 2022 came to a close, OpenAI released an automatic writing system called ChatGPT that rapidly became an Internet sensation; less than two weeks after its release, more than a million people had signed up to try it online. As every reader surely knows by now, you type in text, and immediately get back paragraphs and paragraphs of uncannily human-like writing, stories, poems and more. Some of what it writes is so good that some people are using it to pick up dates on Tinder ("Do you mind if I take a seat? Because watching you do those hip thrusts is making my legs feel a little weak.") Other, to the considerable consternation of educators everywhere, are using it write term papers. Still others are using it to try to reinvent search engines . I have never seen anything like this much buzz.

Still, we should not be entirely impressed.

As I told NYT columnist Farhad Manjoo, ChatGPT, like earlier, related systems is "still not reliable, still doesn't understand the physical world, still doesn't understand the psychological world and still hallucinates."

[...] What Silicon Valley, and indeed the world, is waiting for, is GPT-4.

I guarantee that minds will be blown. I know several people who have actually tried GPT-4, and all were impressed. It truly is coming soon (Spring of 2023, according to some rumors). When it comes out, it will totally eclipse ChatGPT; it's safe bet that even more people will be talking about it.

[...] In technical terms, GPT-4 will have more parameters inside of it, requiring more processors and memory to be tied together, and be trained on more data. GPT-1 was trained on 4.6 gigabytes of data, GPT-2 was trained on 46 gigabytes, GPT-3 was trained on 750. GPT-4 will be trained on considerably more, a significant fraction of the internet as a whole. As OpenAI has learned, bigger in many ways means better, with outputs more and more humanlike with each iteration. GPT-4 is going to be a monster.

The article goes on to list 7 "dark predictions" that, if realized, may signal it's time to move on.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by RamiK on Thursday January 12 2023, @01:10AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Thursday January 12 2023, @01:10AM (#1286431)

    It's just parroting text back that sometimes looks genious and sometimes makes no sense and feels like it was written by an alien...It's like a gazillion little monkeys with typewriters -- eventually they'll produce something solid among all the crap.

    It doesn't work like but I won't waste your time explaining it since you can get a good idea of the iterative creative process involved when working with those types of systems by playing a few rounds of AI Dungeon: https://play.aidungeon.io/ [aidungeon.io]

    Once you do, you'll understand how CNET shaved off the "creative writing" requirement off their financial pieces by having an AI do the parroting and a human do the fact checking and editing: https://futurism.com/the-byte/cnet-publishing-articles-by-ai [futurism.com]

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