GPT-4

AI continues to improve

I continue to believe the new AI tools will change, sooner than we think, change everything. Already developers that are not using co-pilot, or similar tools are falling behind. Tests show that using co-pilot more than doubles the speed of writing good code. My feedback from friends is that is not an exaggeration. Co-pilot doesn’t write perfect code (at least not yet), but it writes 80%-right code that can quickly be edited. The new skill in this new world will be to write the right effective prompts, and then edit the content.

Already Microsoft is recording all internal meetings. Those meetings are being transcribed and every meeting ends with summarized notes and take-aways. How long until that information is itself summarized and presented to the CEO weekly or daily: “This is the most important things you need to know about in terms of what the 200,000 employees in the company achieved today.” The CEO Will be able to ask the tool questions and have it propose next steps. Call it co-pilot for the executive suite.

That vision is one steep close yesterday with the public launch of GPT-4. Announcement here. OpenAI had GPT-4 take a number of standardized tests, and it blew away the performance of GPT-3.5 (the technology behind GPTChat). You can access GPT-4 right now through GPTChat if you subscribe to $20/month “plus” program.

I had a meeting yesterday with Brady Neal, founder of Adventure AI. He is building an education tool to help kids learn how to use these new AI tools. I am signing up my 8-year old into the first cohort. These are the new skills you will need not to be left behind. What are you doing to get up to speed?

Keep it simple,

Edward