GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary - The New York Times

GPT-4 didn't give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I've been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately. And it has made me wonder whether that feeling will ever fade, or whether we're going to be experiencing "future shock" -- the term coined by the writer Alvin Toffler for the feeling that too much is changing, too quickly -- for the rest of our lives. For a few hours on Tuesday, I prodded GPT-4 -- which is included with ChatGPT Plus, the $20-a-month version of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT -- with different types of questions, hoping to uncover some of its strengths and weaknesses. I asked GPT-4 to help me with a complicated tax problem.