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AI Breakdown · March 14, 2023 · 22m

GPT-4 Is Here and It Changes Everything

Whittemore breaks down OpenAI's GPT-4 launch — the multimodal capabilities, the benchmark performance, and why this model represents a qualitative leap over GPT-3.5.

Highlights

GPT-4 represents a phase transition — not just better performance but qualitatively different capabilities
Whittemore argues that GPT-4 isn't just GPT-3.5 but better. The ability to pass the bar exam, understand images, and maintain long context represents emergent capabilities that weren't predicted by scaling alone.
The people dismissing AI today will be the people disrupted by AI tomorrow
Whittemore catalogs the dismissive reactions to GPT-4 ('it's just autocomplete,' 'it can't really think,' 'it makes mistakes') and argues these mirror every previous technology dismissal.