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GPT-4 is Here: Is It Really Changing the Game for Language AI?
Is GPT-4 the next big step in AI we were all waiting for?
Today, I woke up, and the hashtag #gpt-4 was trending on Twitter. Immediately, I thought that OpenAI released the next version of the most popular language model, and people were going mad about it. So, I started reading the top threads on this topic. To my disappointment, most of them were rumors about the release date, how big GPT-4 will be, and what it will be capable of, while the rest were memes from various Sci-Fi movies.
One of the most popular infographics displays GPT-3 as a dot next to a big black hole named GPT-4. The legend says that GPT-3 had about 175B parameters, while GPT-4 will have 100 trillion of them! How could that be possible? Another tweet reveals that GPT-4 will be a multi-modal LLM (Large Language Model), accepting audio, images, and video as input, not only text. Finally, several tweets direct dystopic scenarios from movies like the Terminator of Ex Machina.
While I was scrolling this endless stream of tweets, the words of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, were floating…
