Far too many people view the free version of ChatGPT as a measure of what generative AI is capable of, and it is providing many in education with a false sense of reality. Since OpenAI launched GPT-4 last year, hundreds if not thousands of third-party apps are using the most advanced multimodal model’s API to sell students on
This is a huge problem and I don't see any solution in sight the moment. Already, many people I've spoken to who were excited about genAI even 6 months ago have either lost interest or are overwhelmed with the explosion of new tools geared toward the education market. On another note - why so little coverage of the absolutely crazy glitch on GPT-4 a few days ago? For about 12 hours, GPT-4 was spewing absolute nonsense and totally off the rails. I have several chats of total gibberish in response to normal prompts. I've seen nothing in the mainstream press about it - OpenAI claims they fixed it, but the truth is they have absolutely no idea what happened. That only makes it more difficult to convince AI skeptics to have confidence in these models. My anecdotal observation as a heavy user of GPT-4 is that it has gotten worse over the past 6 months. Hard to pinpoint why, but the results I've been getting have been much less impressive, shorter, and not nearly as innovative as I've gotten previously.
Yeah no one is talking about that meltdown. Oh well... this thing we are all coming to rely on and want to integrate into schools suddenly breaks down completely, and OpenAI just says No comment. Word on the street is that GPT 5 testing is happening right now inside GPT 4. Some users are experiencing some breakthrough results, others diminishing returns, and then this breakdown. We shall see what comes of it all.
This is a huge problem and I don't see any solution in sight the moment. Already, many people I've spoken to who were excited about genAI even 6 months ago have either lost interest or are overwhelmed with the explosion of new tools geared toward the education market. On another note - why so little coverage of the absolutely crazy glitch on GPT-4 a few days ago? For about 12 hours, GPT-4 was spewing absolute nonsense and totally off the rails. I have several chats of total gibberish in response to normal prompts. I've seen nothing in the mainstream press about it - OpenAI claims they fixed it, but the truth is they have absolutely no idea what happened. That only makes it more difficult to convince AI skeptics to have confidence in these models. My anecdotal observation as a heavy user of GPT-4 is that it has gotten worse over the past 6 months. Hard to pinpoint why, but the results I've been getting have been much less impressive, shorter, and not nearly as innovative as I've gotten previously.
Yeah no one is talking about that meltdown. Oh well... this thing we are all coming to rely on and want to integrate into schools suddenly breaks down completely, and OpenAI just says No comment. Word on the street is that GPT 5 testing is happening right now inside GPT 4. Some users are experiencing some breakthrough results, others diminishing returns, and then this breakdown. We shall see what comes of it all.