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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

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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.
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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.