Oh, that pattern of hype’s already been doing the rounds since GPT-3 first came out — people imagining GPT-4 and GPT-5 for short sci-fi stories about the late 2020s and early 2030s, asking a question that dates at least as far back as a few centuries BC with Jewish folklore about humans creating golems: can the work of our human hands and minds ever itself be a person?
I’ve been playing with it. It’s very impressive, it’s not merely regurgitating quotations like Google, it get things horribly wrong just enough to be noticeable (but on most topics you actually need to be a domain expert to even know that; so the software developers are generally the only ones who see the buggy code, the lawyers are generally the only ones who see the bad law, the mathematicians are generally the only ones who see what’s wrong with the proofs, and so on).
Definitely doesn’t feel like either a human nor the computer in Star Trek. Can’t quite manage long-range coherency. But very, very impressive despite that.
I’ve been playing with it. It’s very impressive, it’s not merely regurgitating quotations like Google, it get things horribly wrong just enough to be noticeable (but on most topics you actually need to be a domain expert to even know that; so the software developers are generally the only ones who see the buggy code, the lawyers are generally the only ones who see the bad law, the mathematicians are generally the only ones who see what’s wrong with the proofs, and so on).
Definitely doesn’t feel like either a human nor the computer in Star Trek. Can’t quite manage long-range coherency. But very, very impressive despite that.