Subj : AI might take a winter break as GPT-4 Turbo apparently learns fro To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed Dec 13 2023 12:45:05 AI might take a winter break as GPT-4 Turbo apparently learns from us to wind down for the Holidays Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:36:07 +0000 Description: An interesting experiment with the AI finds evidence of a statistically significant decline in productivity in December. FULL STORY ====================================================================== It seems that GPT-4 Turbo the most recent incarnation of the large language model (LLM) from OpenAI winds down for the winter, just as many people are doing as December rolls onwards. We all get those end-of-year Holiday season chill vibes (probably) and indeed that appears to be why GPT-4 Turbo which Microsofts Copilot AI will soon be upgraded to is acting in this manner. As Wccftech highlighted, the interesting observation on the AIs behavior was made by an LLM enthusiast, Rob Lynch, on X (formerly Twitter). @ChatGPTapp @OpenAI @tszzl @emollick @voooooogel Wild result. gpt-4-turbo over the API produces (statistically significant) shorter completions when it "thinks" its December vs. when it thinks its May (as determined by the date in the system prompt).I took the same exact prompt pic.twitter.com/mA7sqZUA0r December 11, 2023 See more The claim is that GPT-4 Turbo produces shorter responses to a statistically significant extent when the AI believes that its December, as opposed to May (with the testing done by changing the date in the system prompt). So, the tentative conclusion is that it appears GPT-4 Turbo learns this behavior from us, an idea advanced by Ethan Mollick (an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in AI). OMG, the AI Winter Break Hypothesis may actually be true?There was some idle speculation that GPT-4 might perform worse in December because it "learned" to do less work over the holidays.Here is a statistically significant test showing that this may be true. LLMs are weird. https://t.co/mtCY3lmLFF December 11, 2023 See more Apparently GPT-4 Turbo is about 5% less productive if the AI thinks its the Holiday season. Analysis: Winter break hypothesis This is known as the AI winter break hypothesis and its an area that is worth exploring further. What it goes to show is how unintended influences can be picked up by an AI that we wouldnt dream of considering although some researchers obviously did notice and consider it, and then test it. But still, you get what we mean and theres a whole lot of worry around these kinds of unexpected developments. As AI progresses, its influences, and the direction that the tech takes itself in, need careful watching over, hence all the talk of safeguards for AI being vital. Were rushing ahead with developing AI or rather, the likes of OpenAI (GPT), Microsoft (Copilot), and Google (Bard) certainly are caught up in a tech arms race, with most of the focus on driving progress as hard as possible, with safeguards being more of an afterthought. And theres an obvious danger therein which one word sums up nicely: Skynet. At any rate, regarding this specific experiment, its just one piece of evidence that the winter break theory is true for GPT-4 Turbo, and Lynch has urged others to get in touch if they can reproduce the results and we do have one report of a successful reproduction so far. Still, thats not enough for a concrete conclusion yet watch this space, we guess. As mentioned above, Microsoft is currently upgrading its Copilot AI from GPT-4 to GPT-4 Turbo , which has been advanced in terms of being more accurate and offering higher quality responses in general. Google, meanwhile, is far from standing still with its rival Bard AI , which is powered by its new LLM, Gemini . You might also like ... Google could bring AI writing tools to Chromebooks Bing AI is coming to Chrome, taking on Google Bard on its own turf Microsoft kills off Edge features in a bid to beat Chrome ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/ai-might-take-a-wi nter-break-as-gpt-4-turbo-apparently-learns-from-us-to-wind-down-for-the-holid ays --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .