About why GPT-3 is a big deal and what GPT-4 might do.
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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About why GPT-3 is a big deal and what GPT-4 might do.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
The first two versions generated content based on a prompt that was coherent for a sentence or a paragraph.
GPT-3 generates an entire article that's largely coherent (though still lacking nuanced meaning).
Each version of GPT has exponentially increasing parameter count. Raw compute seems to be winning out here. Basically for this application they aren't seeming to hit diminishing returns for increasing parameters.
Now people are wondering what GPT-4 can do. If you can write human-level coherent articles or if it passes the turing test or something it's gonna trigger an arms race for governments to obtain this capability.