GPT-4 is Even Better Than You Think

I recently read an article written by four professors from large universities.  The purpose of the article was to convince the reader that GPT-4, and other large language models are not significant or worth our interest.  Were we testing the same LLM system?  I am giddy with the potential!

I am also a veteran futurist with over three decades in the technology industry, and I can confidently say that GPT-4 is the most impressive technology I have seen in my career.  In fact, Bill Gates, calls it the biggest technology leap since 1980.

I am not saying LLMs are perfect, but they are certainly incredible.  I can ask for a list of emerging technologies and trends in a particular industry and it will produce a comprehensive list comparable to my own manually researched list.  I can ask GPT-4 to find trends most analysts have missed.  It will competently generate a list of little known developments, and then describe their potential impact on an industry.  I am amazed.  

I asked GPT-4 to consider the convergence of a half dozen different scientific and technological innovations on the food industry.  It wrote an essay on how the combination of those innovations would influence the future of food.  As a veteran futurist I read the essay and learned.  The content was clever, insightful and rational.  No human I know can produce that level of insight and analysis so fast.

I recently had a call with a friend in the technology field that tried to convince me that LLMs and GPT were not impressive.  He explained there were better technologies being developed by others.  OK, but the GPT-4 I am testing daily is rocking my world.  I will celebrate each new start-up that produces something better, but for now I am seeing the future and it is in my hands.

One of the biggest discoveries I have made since I started using GPT daily is the amazing amounts of creative juices that are spilling out of my brain.  Each new response that GPT generates expands my curiosity.  One response leads to another question, more curiosity, and new paths of discovery.  

If GPT has this impact on millions of users, it will be an amazing experience of community learning and education.

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Kevin Benedict

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