The future seemed so much further away, yet almost every day now we see a new breakthrough in AI. Exponential technological growth is hard to keep track of, and to think that this is only the beginning! Every field will likely be revolutionised with AI.
I am still praying for this to hit its local maximum spot soon, because I don't want to lose my job. If we get GPT-5 and 6 at the same speed, they get the capability to be trained on proprietary code bases and become able to automagically solve most tickets under supervision, most software engineering jobs are done for. I have become a luddite.
GPT-4 received a top 10% score on the Uniform Bar Exam. This does not only include multiple choice questions. This exam also requires writing essays analyzing a given fact pattern and applying legal principles to predict what the correct legal outcome should be. This is a very, very big deal.
The texts are not nonsense. Saying coherent but novel things about the world, and correctly interpreting almost any text input in context requires a simplified world model, just like a human has. The fascinating and shocking thing about this is that a simple problem like text prediction- solved deeply (pun intended) leads to general intelligence.
