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The world is witnessing a pragmatic shift into a new era of artificial intelligence, and if your mind hasn't been boggled by its possibilities, you're not paying attention. A new revolution has arrived where technology is poised to permanently reshape society. Is this for the better or to give birth to a dystopian reality is a question only time will answer. For now, a technology still in its infancy has overwhelmed the entire human generation with concern that the future will bear little resemblance to the past. The abilities of the new GPT-4, the latest product from OpenAI months after shaking the world with its revolutionary ChatGPT tool, are overwhelming researchers and academics and we still don't know its full potential. One wrote: “GPT-4 gave me an 'existential crisis' as its intelligence is far more powerful than the tester's dwarf brain. Within days, GPT passed all major US exams including the Uniform Bar Exam, Biology Olympiad, LSAT to name a few. His ecstatic performance is higher than 90% of human candidates. With high reasoning skills and broader knowledge, you can now study a picture to give answers. You can feel his most sophisticated when he gives accurate answers to tricky questions and tells better jokes. According to Open AI, its improved entity, GPT-4, is more capable and accurate than ChatGPT and can return surprisingly accurate solutions in a variety of tests. It is multimodal, so it can interpret both text and images to solve queries. Microsoft is using it to revolutionize its search engine, Bing, payment company Stripe is using it for payment fraud, educator Khan Academy is creating personalized learning experiences for students, and Morgan Stanley will use it to guide its bankers. and their clients.
GPT-4 is a catalyst used by millions of startups who claim to use its secret recipe to create new products and improve the operational efficiency of their businesses that will revolutionize legal administration, medical diagnostics, academic research, marketing strategy, and even mundane tasks. At the forefront of this empowerment are tech giants Microsoft and Google who are racing to use generative AI to dominate the World Wide Web by transforming search engines.
However, this disruptive technology is also seen as a threat, if it does everything, what will we have left to do? "The worst AI risks are the ones we can't anticipate. And the more time I spend with AI systems like GPT-4, the less sure I am that I know half of what's going on," Kevin Roose says in a statement. New York Times op-ed, but Professor Charlie Beckett, founding director of Polis, in his Guardian column, differs: "AI is not about full automation of end-to-end content production: this is a push to give professionals and creatives the tools to work faster, freeing them up to spend more time doing what humans do best.'
"Halucinations" is a great challenge that GPT couldn't overcome, where he makes things up. It makes factual errors, creates harmful content, and also has the potential to spread misinformation based on its biases. “We spent six months making GPT-4 more secure and more aligned. You are 82% less likely to respond to requests for unauthorized content and 40% more likely to produce factual responses,” OpenAI said. Its founder, Sam, further admits, despite the anticipation, that GPT-4 "is still flawed, still limited, but still looks more impressive on first use than after spending more time with it."
Amid the fascinating results, the flaws cannot be ignored. “Every great linguistic model is in some way the child of the texts on which it is formed. If the bot learns to lie, it is because it has understood from these texts that human beings often use lies to achieve their goals. The sins of the robots come to resemble the sins of their creators. writes Stephen L. Carter is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.
