GPT4, Midjourney v5 and the devualation of knowledge

It's happened, finally GPT-4 has arrived, and everyone is freaking out.

Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy

"Where were you when GPT-4 was released?"

There was a lot of talk about the release of the new generation model from OpenAI, and now it's here.

The new model is multimodal, which means it can accept images as input and reason about them:

🌪️ CEO OF CREATION 🔥 @MasterTimBlais

it's so over

Another characteristic is that it accepts more context. According to OpenAI, "GPT-4 is capable of handling over 25,000 words of text, allowing for use cases like long-form content creation, extended conversations, and document search and analysis."

This is amazing, as one issue with the previous model was its limited context capacity. Now, with this improvement, we can use it for more advanced tasks.

The third improvement is its enhanced reasoning and fewer errors in its responses.

I saw on Twitter that it can build basic games in minutes:

Ammaar Reshi @ammaar

Can GPT-4 code an entire game for you? Yes, yes it can. Here's how I recreated a Snake game that runs in your browser using Chat GPT-4 and @Replit, with ZERO knowledge of Javascript all in less than 20 mins 🧵

So I tried myself and I can build one myself very quickly.

This is incredibly exciting, and a multitude of possibilities have opened up:

Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem

With GPT-4’s image capabilities it might be possible to build an agent that can interact online natively: 1. capture browser’s screen 2. prompt is “your goal is to achieve X, what do I type/click/do next?” 3. take action via Puppeteer 4. repeat on the internet nobody knows…

Lior⚡ @AlphaSignalAI

GPT4 is capable of turning a picture of a napkin sketch to a fully functioning html/css/javascript website.

This is another game, really cool:

Andre Infante @AndreTI

Holy *shit*. Guys. Holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit.

This raises various questions, such as what will constitute unique knowledge in the future, and what will be considered low-value knowledge?

Markov @MarkovMagnifico

the advent of search engines divided knowledge into things worth knowing, and things you could always just look up. this greatly devalued knowing mere facts relative to previously in history AI is going to create another such bifurcation, since so much of our intelligence can…

In other news, Midjourney v5 was released today and it looks awesome:

Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats

Midjourney v5 is here! (for real this time, lol) Here are some side-by-sides of my prompts, v4 vs v5, as well as some new prompts and crowd shots. I'll add more to this as I experiment. 🧵

I tried it myself, and the quality of the images is very impressive. To be honest, I have only tried Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-2 and never Midjourney, so perhaps for this reason, the quality of the images seemed out of this world to me. In contrast to Stable Diffusion Midjourney v5 creates very amazing images with less difficulty.

So, yes, this has been a wild week, and it reminds me of the time when Stabble Difusion and ChatGPT were released in the latter part of last year.