Dear Fellow Scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér.
This is GPT-4, OpenAI’s new language model AI that we just talked about, and today I would
love to show you that it has barely been out, and it is already taking the world by storm.
Here are 5 incredible ways it already is in use in the real world, in real products,
some of which you can probably try right now, or at the very least, soon. One. In the language
learning app Duolingo, they now supercharged the process of learning a new language with GPT-4.
We can have scripted conversations, for instance, we can order coffee in French. That is very cool,
but that’s not the interesting part. Yet. Now, look! GPT-4 will look at our conversation and
give us tips on how to make our French feel a little more natural. And don’t forget,
this can be a two-way conversation, so if we don’t quite understand what it is
trying to teach us, we can also ask for additional examples. Loving it.
Two, Stripe, a payment processor company puts GPT-4’s amazing information organizing
capabilities to use by letting the users ask them a question in natural text. Now,
normally, if we have a question like this, we would have to look through the
entire documentation and hope there is something about it. But, from today on,
not anymore. Instead, we can now ask GPT-4 to look through their entire documentation and
summarize the solution for us. This is going to save a lot of time for a lot of people.
Three, my favorite, Khan Academy is also testing a GPT-4 powered solution. If you are a student,
and have a question about, for instance, mathematics, and the best part is, it will
behave like a real tutor and will not just give you the solution, but it can also try to steer you
towards that solution and give you hints so you can find it out yourself. This is going to help
millions and millions of children study all around the world. And, it can also help with perhaps the
most dreaded question a computer science student can ask. And of course, that is “Here is my piece
of code, but it’s not working. What’s wrong with it?”. And it can help us with that too. That is
absolutely amazing. What a time to be alive! It can also help teachers create a curriculum too.
Four, while we are talking about helping us write and fix computer code,
it can look at our whole codebase, and whenever some issue arises it can not
only tell us what is going on, but, it will actually write that missing
subtraction function and fix the return variable as well in one go. So cool!
And five, it can also be connected to your car, and we can ask it about our average speed and the
current status of our battery. But that would not be as useful. Can it do something that requires a
little more intelligence? Of course it can! Look! It can even create a plot that shows
our speed and our battery drain for each of our previous driving sessions. And that’s just the
first few experiments of trying to make this incredible new AI work. And it already helps
us learn new languages, organize our knowledge, it can become an excellent tutor when studying,
helps us fixing computer code, and also makes our car more useful. How cool is that!
And don’t forget, GPT-4 is multimodal, so we can not only give it text as an input, but
images too. We can ask it to explain memes, tell us what would happen in hypothetical scenarios.
And just imagine what this will be able to do just two more papers down the line. Maybe
a personal assistant who reads news and papers for us, it knows our interests and summarizes
them just in the way we like it, check its sources and points out potential flaws in the reasoning.
I would love that. But you know what? Perhaps GPT-4 can already do that, we just need to find
a way to ask it properly. That is the incredible world we live in today. What a time to be alive!
Thanks for watching and for your generous support, and I'll see you next time!