An attempt to explain (current) ChatGPT versions. I still run into many, many people who don't know that: - o3 is the obvious best thing for important/hard things. It is a reasoning model that is much stronger than 4o and if you are using ChatGPT professionally and not using o3 https://t.co/1bQz0frqIc
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These new types of AI, called Large Language Models (LLMs), are still doing prediction, but rather than predicting the demand for an Amazon order, they are analyzing a piece of text and predicting the next token, which is simply a word or part of a word. Ultimately, that is all ChatGPT does technically—act as a very elaborate autocomplete like you
... See moreAI is what those of us who study technology call a General Purpose Technology (ironically, also abbreviated GPT). These advances are once-in-a-generation technologies, like steam power or the internet, that touch every industry and every aspect of life. And, in some ways, generative AI might even be bigger.
“We don’t know what capabilities GPT-5 will have until we train it and test it. It might be a medium-size problem right now, but it will become a really big problem in the future as models become more powerful.”