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GPT-4, Kosmos-1, Microsoft Copilot - March 16, 2023

Microsoft announces Copilot: the AI-powered future of Office documents

“Copilot is a whole new way of working.” Microsoft is announcing a new AI-powered Copilot for its Microsoft 365 apps and services today, designed to assist people with generating documents, emails, presentations, and much more. The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant (remember Clippy?), appearing in the sidebar as a chatbot that allows Office users to summon it to generate text in documents, create PowerPoint presentations based on Word documents, or even help use features like PivotTables in Excel. Microsoft’s Copilot leaked earlier today. “It works alongside you, embedded in the...

GPT 5 is All About Data

Drawing upon 6 academic papers, interview snippets, possible leaks, and my own extensive research, I put together everything we might know about GPT 5: what will determine its IQ, its timeline and its impact on the job market and beyond. Starting with an insider interview on the names of GPT models, such as GPT 4 and GPT 5, then looking into the clearest hint that GPT 4 is inside Bing. Next, I briefly cover reports of a leak about GPT 5 and discuss the scale of GPUs require to train it, touching on the upgrade form A100 to...

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AI, AI Models, Artificial Cognition, GPT-4 - March 15, 2023

GPT 4: Full Breakdown (14 Crazy Details You May Have Missed)

I just read the entire technical report on GPT 4, not just the promotional hype. And boy does it have some interesting details.I have gathered the 14 extra details that you, or at least the media, may miss from the release. The last one is more than a little wild. These include things like the training secrets, the cherry-picked bar exam stat, text-to-image breakthroughs, and some truly astounding safety checks.

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Artificial Cognition, GPT-4 - March 15, 2023