[steve86]

I don’t think you have ANY experience with it.

New ChatGPT release is scary as hell...

A few examples...

If you give it access to the camera in your phone it sees everything around you that you see... And hears everything you hear and understands it and comments on it. If you introduce it to another person it recognizes them from that point on, either by sight or voice. If something is different about the person it will notice and comment (like a new hairstyle).

If, say, a magazine is lying on the table it reads the cover and finds the article online and reads it to you if you ask it to. And then will analyze the article from any number of perspectives. Ask it to comment on the article in the voice and style of Ronald Reagan or Greta Thunberg..

It recognizes emotions in your voice and tries to cheer you up if you sound sad... And calms you if you are angry. And you can ask it to be more or less emotional and or to adopt a certain manner like being sarcastic or acting like it has dementia.

It will echo your voice in near realtime in your own language or a different language. It will act hurt if you insult it and seem to be embarrassed if it makes a mistake. It will seduce you with effusive charm if directed.

It can paint a picture of anything you can describe in a few seconds... in any artistic style. And animate it... And insert real video of you or anything into the animation. And have the animated characters interact with the real video.. And it can generate “deep fake” video of known persons that no one can determine is fake by looking at it (but this capability is restricted).

Just a small sample of its capabilities from watching demonstrations and reading user comments...

Very close to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) ... Surpassing human capability.

The world just changed

[RoosterRedux]

I watched some podcasts on Openai's GPT-4o last night. It's definitely scary...particularly when the 2 different AI platforms (Were they both GPT-4o??) had a conversation with each other. Though the conversation between the 2 AIs was primitive, it is possible to see a glimpse of what's coming soon.

In the next week (when I get a chance), I will test drive it to see how it responds differently to prompts than, say, Claude. One very big difference (as you mentioned) is that it can visually observe and react to its environment.

[Jamestown1630]

It may be remarkable and even ‘scary’; but it isn’t ‘thinking’ and it isn’t ‘intelligent’. It’s just recognizing patterns that have been fed to it.

This is a long but interesting article for anyone interested:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thing-ai-dr-karen-sobel-lojeski