The Abilities of GPT-4: Beyond Language and Unanticipated Skills

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Exploring the impressive language generation abilities of GPT-4, including its surprising skills in Morse code, scoring well on the bar exam, and generating entire websites. The chapter also delves into an experiment testing GPT-4's understanding and the ongoing debate around its true language comprehension.

The researchers who create and study tech like ChatGPT don’t understand exactly how it’s doing what it does. This is the first episode of “The Black Box,” a two-part series from Unexplainable.

This episode was reported and produced by Noam Hassenfeld, edited by Brian Resnick and Katherine Wells with help from Byrd Pinkerton and Meradith Hoddinott, and fact-checked by Serena Solin, Tien Nguyen, and Mandy Nguyen. It was mixed and sound designed by Cristian Ayala with music by Noam Hassenfeld.

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