What Happened: Speaking with Scott during a Behind The Tech session, Gates said, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is so capable that it could write a “college application or re-write the declaration of independence the way a famous person like Donald Trump might.”
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Gates was speaking about his experience with GPT-4 as he was the first person outside OpenAI to see this technology. Gates hosted a dinner last August with OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, Co-Founder Greg Brockman and others, according to Scott.
When asked about the OpenAI GPT technology’s abilities and limitations, Gates said it doesn’t understand context like humans.
He also said, “Math is a very abstract type of reasoning,” and is currently ChatGPT’s greatest weakness. OpenAI’s technology can “weirdly” solve lots of math problems, especially if they are in abstract form, but in answering numerical questions, it still makes mistakes “confidently.”
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