This article discusses OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, which many consider a revolutionary achievement in the field of AI technology. This may be the moment that will revolutionize the way AI solutions are developed and used in the years to come. GPT-4 is an advanced language model that has been built by OpenAI with a state-of-the-art plugin system, making it the “Appstore moment” in AI technology.
OpenAI is a tech firm founded in 2015 by artificial intelligence researchers, such as CEO Sam Altman, for the purposes of developing advanced AI technology and creating a beneficial future for society. In his podcast with Lex Fridman, Altman commented that early AI models, such as GPT-4, are likely to be slow and buggy and that it may take many decades for the models to improve but that these early models still point to a future of great technological potential.
ChatGPT is considered to be the most popular and simplest to use AI model currently available for mass adoption and is expected to be a major stepping stone in the future of AI technology. The advantage of ChatGPT and other AI models is that they can be trained to understand large amounts of data, but often have areas where they lack practical application when tested. In order to make these models more useful, and improve their performance, Altman believes reinforcing AI models with human feedback (RLHF) via reinforcement learning techniques can be helpful. This process involves evaluating two outputs and asking a human which is better, and then utilizing the feedback to further train the model, which helps it understand human preferences and adapt its outputs accordingly.
Overall, OpenAI believes that, by ingesting human knowledge, the GPT-4 model has acquired a form of reasoning capability that adds to the collective intelligence of humanity. Though there is still much that OpenAI does not understand about the forces and technology behind GPT-4’s success, OpenAI has achieved an impressive milestone with this model and is continuing to develop its technologies to realize the potential of AI technology for a better world.
