This is a textbook example of the “AI effect”, a special instance of moving the goalposts so common in the artificial intelligence domain that it has its own Wikipedia page.
A few years ago the best chatbots basically just worked like a phone tree, trying to filter you into pre-written responses. Then GPT3 came along and was able to synthesize entire paragraphs of plausible text. ChatGPT was released only ~4 months ago and I was complaining that due to fundamental shortcomings it wouldn’t be able to play chess.
Now it seems that GPT4 can. And that was a change over only 4 months. If the last hill to fight over is whether GPT4 can self improve, well, it’s only a matter of time until GPT4 is placed into some kind of self-improving CICD pipeline.
A few years ago the best chatbots basically just worked like a phone tree, trying to filter you into pre-written responses. Then GPT3 came along and was able to synthesize entire paragraphs of plausible text. ChatGPT was released only ~4 months ago and I was complaining that due to fundamental shortcomings it wouldn’t be able to play chess.
Now it seems that GPT4 can. And that was a change over only 4 months. If the last hill to fight over is whether GPT4 can self improve, well, it’s only a matter of time until GPT4 is placed into some kind of self-improving CICD pipeline.