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Title    What to Expect When You're Expecting ... GPT-4
Date    Wednesday January 11 2023, @11:13PM
Author    hubie
Topic   
from the GPT-3-is-so-last-month dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=23/01/11/047232

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.

Previously:


Original Submission

Links

  1. "fliptop" - https://soylentnews.org/~fliptop/
  2. "it is also easily confused" - https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/268395-what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-gpt-4/fulltext
  3. "using it to pick up dates on Tinder" - https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-tinder-tiktok
  4. "considerable consternation of educators everywhere" - https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/chatgpt-college-essay-plagiarism.html
  5. "try to reinvent search engines" - http://perplexity.ai/
  6. "told NYT columnist Farhad Manjoo" - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/opinion/conversation-with-chatgpt.html
  7. "is coming soon" - https://towardsdatascience.com/gpt-4-is-coming-soon-heres-what-we-know-about-it-64db058cfd45
  8. "GPT-1 was trained on 4.6 gigabytes of data, GPT-2 was trained on 46 gigabytes, GPT-3 was trained on 750" - https://s10251.pcdn.co/pdf/2022-Alan-D-Thompson-Whats-in-my-AI-Rev-0.pdf
  9. "ChatGPT Arrives in the Academic World" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/12/19/1527216
  10. "Stack Overflow Temporarily Bans Answers From OpenAI's ChatGPT Chatbot" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/12/13/0317244
  11. "OpenAI's New ChatGPT Bot: 10 "Dangerous" Things it's Capable of" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/12/07/1535223
  12. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=58068

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