Sci-fi has been predicting autonomous systems for decades. One example is Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S. from the Avengers: Tony Stark: "J.A.R.V.I.S., are you up?" Tony: "I'd like to open a new project file, index as: Mark II." J: "Shall I store this on the Stark Industries' central database?" Tony: "I don't know who to trust right now. 'Til further notice, why don't we just keep everything on my private server." J: "Working on a secret project, are we, sir?" Tony: "I don't want this winding up in the wrong hands. Maybe in mine, it could actually do some good."

OpenAI has (partially) released GPT-4. You can get access by paying for ChatGPT Pro (although ChatGPT Pro is currently limited to text, while the full GPT-4 can deal with more mediums than text), or you can join the waitlist for the API. There are a lot of really good writeups on what's in GPT-4, so rather than write another one, I'm going to link to the great work that other "first on the scene" authors have done. Subscribe for free to receive new posts. I recommend subscribing to all of these authors.