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The first day after its presentation, GPT-4 surprised many users in early testing and a company demo with its ability to write claims, pass standardized exams, and create a working website from a hand-drawn sketch.

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the next-generation version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its viral chatbot tool, ChatGPT. The most powerful GPT-4 promises to blow previous iterations out of the water, potentially changing the way we use the internet to work, play and create. But it could also add to challenging questions about how AI tools can change professions, enable students to cheat, and change our relationship with technology.

GPT-4 is an updated version of the company’s large language model, which is trained on large amounts of online data to generate complex responses to user requests. It’s now available via a waiting list and has already made its way into some third-party products, including Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search. engine Some users with early access to the tool share their experiences and highlight some of their most compelling use cases.

Here’s a closer look at GPT-4’s potential:

At its core, GPT-4’s biggest change is its ability to work with user-uploaded photos.

One of the most amazing use cases so far comes from an OpenAI video demo that showed how the drawing could be turned into a functional website in a few minutes. The demonstrator uploaded the image to GPT-4 and then pasted the resulting code into a preview that showed what a working website might look like.

In its announcement, OpenAI also showed how GPT-4 was asked to tell a joke from a series of images, which featured a smartphone with the wrong charger, and described why it was funny Although it may sound simple, dissecting a joke It is more complicated for AI tools to approach because of the context required.

In another test, The New York Times showed GPT-4 a picture of the inside of a refrigerator and asked it to make a meal based on the ingredients.

The photo feature isn’t live yet, but OpenAI is expected to roll it out in the coming weeks.

Some early adopters of GPT-4 with little or no coding knowledge have also used it recreates iconic games like Pong, Tetris or Snake after following the step-by-step instructions provided by the tool on how to do so. Others have done theirs original games. (GPT-4 can write code in all major programming languages, according to OpenAI.)

“GPT-4’s powerful language capabilities will be used for everything from scripting, character creation, to game content creation,” said Arun Chandrasekaran, an analyst at Gartner Research. “This could lead to more independent game providers in the future. But beyond the game itself, GPT-4 and similar models can be used to create marketing content around game previews, generate news articles and even moderate game discussion boards.”

Similar to games, GPT-4 could change the way people develop applications. A Twitter user said so made a simple drawing app in minutes, while another claimed to have done so coded an app that recommends five new movies each day, as well as providing trailers and details on where to watch them.

“Coding is like learning to drive; as long as the beginner gets some guidance, anyone can code,” said Lian Jye Su, an analyst at ABI Research. “AI can be a good teacher.”

Although OpenAI said the update is “less capable” than humans in many real-world scenarios, it shows “human-level performance” in various professional and academic tests. The company said GPT-4 recently passed a mock law school bar exam with a score in the top 10% of participants. By contrast, the previous version, GPT-3.5, was around 10%. The latest version it also performed well on the LSAT, GRE, SAT, and many AP exams, according to OpenAI.

In January, ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to pass prestigious undergraduate exams, such as one from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, but not with particularly high scores. The company said it spent months using lessons from its testing program and ChatGPT to improve the system’s accuracy and ability to stay on topic.

Compared to the previous version, GPT-4 is capable of producing longer, more detailed and more reliable written responses, according to the company.

The latest version can now provide answers of up to 25,000 words, up from around 4,000 before, and can provide detailed instructions for even the most unique scenarios, ranging from how to clean a piranha’s fish tank to extract the DNA from a strawberry. One early adopter said it offered deep suggestions for pickup lines based on a question on a dating profile.

Joshua Browder, CEO of legal services chatbot DoNotPay, said his company already is working on using the tool to generate “one-click claims” to sue robocallers, in a first indication of GPT-4’s huge potential to change the way people work across industries.

“Imagine receiving a call, clicking a button, [the] the call is transcribed and a demand of 1,000 words is generated. GPT-3.5 wasn’t good enough, but GPT-4 handles the job very well,” Browder tweeted.

Meanwhile, Jake Kozloski, CEO of dating site Keeper, said his company is using the tool for better match your users.

According to ABI Research’s Su, we may also see major advances in the “connected car.” [dashboards]remote diagnostics in healthcare and other AI applications that weren’t possible before.”

While the company has made major improvements to its AI model, GPT-4 has similar limitations to previous versions. OpenAI said the technology it does not know the events that happened before its data set was cut off (September 2021) and it does not learn from its experience. It can also make “simple errors of reasoning” or be “overly gullible in accepting a user’s obvious false statements,” and fail to verify the work, the company said.

Gartner’s Chandrasekaran said this also reflects many current AI models. “Let’s not forget that these AI models are not perfect,” Chandrasekaran said. “They can produce inaccurate information from time to time and can be a black box.”

For now, OpenAI said GPT-4 users should exercise caution and use “extreme care,” especially “in high-risk contexts.”