Tuesday 14th of March 2023, 4 months after the first launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI released GPT-4, a more powerful model than ever compared with previous versions. Since 2018, OpenAI had been disseminating GPT language models, but of all huge language models, GPT-4 is not just the newest, but also the most potent.
OpenAI GPT-4 was created as the latest milestone and effort in scaling up deep learning, as a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.
ChatGPT, the system that understands natural language and responds in kind, is causing a sensation and for any one that has tried it out, you’ll surely have wondered what it will soon revolutionize — or, as the case may be, what it will destroy.
As the relevant technology now stands, Chomsky - who has shaped the face of contemporary linguistics with his language acquisition and innateness theories, and a polarizing figure in modern intellectual life - sees the use of ChatGPT as “basically high-tech plagiarism” and “a way of avoiding learning.”
