First impressions — GPT-4 is here. The long-awaited and most-anticipated AI model from OpenAI was announced and launched as a product yesterday, March 14 (confirming the rumors first reported by Heise). …

And I know you know it’s very important — Because you’re reading this, I assume you’re aware that knowing how to prompt generative AI systems well is critical to stay ahead. Even then, I’d be willing to guess (most of) you underestimate the importance it’ll take in the short-term future — as long as we don’t fall into an…

ChatGPT is more popular than AI art, so why aren’t writers reacting? — I share the widespread belief that generative AI will impact all kinds of office jobs. Artists, writers, coders — and anyone who falls under the “white-collar” label — are in the danger zone. AI can draw beautiful images, write decent prose, code clean programs, and everything in between. Even if…

This arms race marks an inflection point that will impact AI’s short-term future with foreseeable — and unforeseeable — consequences — This is part 3 a three-part article series covering the recent news on AI involving OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, ChatGPT, the New Bing, and Bard, and how the events will unfold into a new era for AI, search, and the web (part 1 & part 2). I don’t know who’s going…

Caution could be the company’s best friend — or worst enemy — This is part 2 of a three-part article series covering the recent news on AI involving OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, ChatGPT, the New Bing, and Bard, and how the events will unfold into a new era for AI, search, and the web (part 1 & part 3). Last week I published…

The AI cold war between Google and Microsoft is over — This is part 1 of a three-part article series covering the recent news on AI involving OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, ChatGPT, the New Bing, and Bard, and how the events will unfold into a new era for AI, search, and the web (part 2 & part 3). A frantic month. That’s…

A new stage in the history of AI marked by the emergence of a new type of hype — An unsurprising side-effect of ChatGPT going viral is that generative AI has become an attractor for people who care about it exclusively as a means to gain money, social media presence, or business opportunities: The new class of AI influencers. Let me start by making it clear that I don’t…

Within reach for anyone — no fancy prompt engineering needed — I’m critical of people using ChatGPT for everything. And I’m also critical of people claiming you can use ChatGPT for everything. One of the most popular articles on Medium last month was “20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible.” It has 18K likes and 300+ comments. That’s…

For those of you wondering, GPT-4 won’t have 100 trillion parameters — I’m responsible for the “GPT-4 will have 100 trillion parameters” false statement going viral on social media. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, here are a couple of visual examples: These two images above were shared on Twitter (together, at the time of writing, they’ve…