Did the AI behind ChatGPT just get smarter?
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The AI behind ChatGPT just got an upgrade. But it might not have all of the bells and whistles that some were expecting.
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GPT-4 might sound like gibberish, but it could change what you expect from your apps (not to mention what happens when you try out ChatGPT). If you need a recipe and are low on groceries, you could soon take a picture of your open fridge for the system to “look” at, identify your ingredients, and whip up a recipe for the night.
That being said, there are limits to what this new AI language model can do. For instance, even though GPT-4 is better at logic than its predecessor, it can still give answers containing false information.
Tech reporter Drew Harwell breaks down the other ethics issues GPT-4 has raised.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't mean to sound dramatic, but when a service called Chat GPT first went live to |
| 0:08.2 | the public, it kind of felt like an era defining moment. |
| 0:13.8 | All you had to do was go to a website and type a question or a request into a box and |
| 0:19.2 | you would get a response that sounded a lot like it came from a human. |
| 0:24.5 | That was three months ago. |
| 0:26.3 | First instance, that service called Chat GPT has turned out song lyrics and half decent |
| 0:32.2 | academic essays, computer code that actually works and for my benefit explanations of |
| 0:37.9 | how Chat GPT functions in terms of a ten year old can understand. |
| 0:43.3 | And now according to the company that made it, the tech that makes Chat GPT as dazzling |
| 0:49.0 | and as unnerving as it is just got an upgrade. |
| 0:53.6 | It's called GPT 4. |
| 1:01.8 | The new GPT is actually better in like a thousand different hard to tell ways. |
| 1:08.8 | Drew Harwell is a tech reporter at the Post and covers AI. |
| 1:12.8 | But I think the real cool thing in GPT 4 that's like the killer app is that it deals |
| 1:18.8 | with images. |
| 1:20.0 | You can upload an image and you can talk to GPT 4 and ask it to do things. |
| 1:27.4 | You can upload a like joky meme and say like why is this meme funny? |
| 1:33.4 | This is a pretty big step forward for a bot that you can only really type at before. |
| 1:38.7 | But like any new product launch, Drew says this version of GPT has flaws just like the old |
| 1:44.2 | version. |
| 1:46.9 | And GPT 4 is so advanced that OpenAI is not releasing that new image description feature |
| 1:53.5 | to the public yet since they don't know exactly how it will be used. |
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