To borrow an old cliché, ChatGPT-4 broke the internet. The latest iteration of artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI's most advanced AI chatbot was released on March 14, immediately generating considerable hype around a technology that draws equal parts techno-utopianism or robot apocalypse. It can answer questions with natural, human-like language, giving the illusion that there is more than just code on the other end of the dialogue window. In other words, some perceive ChatGPT as a sentient AI, like something from Hollywood sci-fi.
GPT-4 (short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is advertised as exponentially superior to its predecessor GPT-3, trained on a much more extensive dataset that has allowed it to operate with human-level performance across numerous academic benchmarks.
