[valine]

>> Inversion of burden of proof

Nope. OpenAI has already demonstrated the ability to generalize GPT4 to a new modality. Your claim that text models can only generalize to images and not other modalities is utterly unconvincing. Explain to me why vision is so much different than say audio?

>> And it shows. It has a poor grasp of reality. It does a poor job with complex tasks.

GPT4 is a proof of concept more than anything. I’m excited to see how much reliability improves over time. It’s grasp of reality isn’t prefect, but at least it understands how burden of proof works.

[foooorsyth]

>GPT4 is a proof of concept more than anything

Hilarious walk-back. “Text can generalize anything” —-> “It’s just a demo, bro” in the same post.

Lmao

[valine]

I walked back nothing. OpenAI was surprised by the mass adoption of ChatGPT, they saw it as an early technical preview.

I don’t understand why some people have a such hard time envisioning the potential of new technologies without a polished end product in their hands. Imagine if AI researchers had the same attitude.

Technology can be both real and unpolished at the same time. Those two things are not contradictory.