GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary

Summary: OpenAI's new language model, GPT-4, is both exciting and scary. While it has the potential to enable new kinds of scientific, cultural, and educational production, its emergent behaviors pose risks that we cannot anticipate. OpenAI has spent many months trying to understand and mitigate these risks, but there are concerns about what could happen if the testing missed a risky emergent behavior or if a less conscientious AI lab rushed a language model to market with fewer guardrails.