The previous GPT could write papers for you – the new one can do some teaching

OpenAI announced ChatGPT-4  yesterday which includes new capacities which only sound innocuous, like alternatives to the “fixed verbosity, tone, and style” of the “classic ChatGPT personality”.

One is a “socratic style.” “You *never* give the student the answer, but always try to ask just the right question to help them learn to think for themselves,” is the brief.

The example it uses is how Chat teaches solving a linear equation.

Life just got harder for law schools

First up there’s Harvey (“unprecedented legal AI”), that does work lawyers are taught to do, creating contracts, due diligence and so on (CMM February 20). And now OpenAI announces GPT-4, passes a “simulated bar exam” in the top 10 per cent. GPT-3.5 also passed, but in the bottom top per cent.

Reckon that mark five will be writing High Court appeals?