GPT-4 Might Just Be a Bloated, Pointless Mess

As a rule, hyping something that doesn't yet exist is a lot easier than hyping something that does. OpenAI's GPT-4 language model--much anticipated; yet to be released--has been the subject of unchecked, preposterous speculation in recent months. One post that has circulated widely online purports to evince its extraordinary power. An illustration shows a tiny dot representing GPT-3 and its "175 billion parameters." Next to it is a much, much larger circle representing GPT-4, with 100 trillion parameters.