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Early experiments with GPT-4

Microsoft Research paper: “Early experiments with GPT-4”. With ChatGPT Plus largely being vaporware at this point, this is a nice overview of what to reasonably expect. I haven’t finished it yet, but things worth pointing out:

  1. drawing vector graphics in LaTeX
  2. reverse prompting to
    • retrieve up-to-date information from the web
    • do calculations

I did a practical test of #2, and now it can finally answer the question we’re most interested in: “Who is Jörg Lenz?” GPT-4 summarizes up-to-date Google search results