Recently, ChatGPT, as an artificial intelligence-generated content application program, has been downloaded and applied by users on a large scale, causing great attention around the world.
Some scholars call this phenomenon a key breakthrough in the history of artificial intelligence, and its importance is comparable to the revolutionary impact brought by the Netscape browser and Apple's smartphone.
Today's ChatGPT can understand human language, analyze the context and have a dialogue with the user, almost reaching the level of "writing articles, and correcting bugs".
With the continuous iteration of technology, ChatGPT has undergone new upgrades.
Sure enough, the only one who can beat yesterday's OpenAI is today's OpenAI.
GPT-4 is coming
On March 14, local time, OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, officially released its landmark multimodal large model GPT-4.
Although it is not as capable as humans in many real-world scenarios, it can even beat many students on a variety of professional and academic benchmarks.
In many calculations, GPT-4 passed the mock bar exam, and the score was in the top 10%, surpassing many lawyers; In comparison, GPT-3.5 scored around the bottom 10%.
In the SAT reading test, GPT-4 scores rank in the top 7% or so, and in the top 11% of the SAT math test.
In terms of technical capabilities with other English-language machine learning models, GPT-4 also shows excellence.
OpenAI said that of the 26 languages tested, GPT-4 outperformed the English language performance of other large language models such as GPT-3.5 in 24 languages.
Among them, the Chinese of GPT-4 can achieve 80.1% accuracy, while the English accuracy of GPT-3.5 is only 70.1%, and the English accuracy of GPT-4 is improved to 85.5%.
In general, compared with GPT-3.5, GPT-4 has significantly improved model scale, natural language processing task performance, long text generation, and multimodal task processing.
In OpenAI's internal adversarial authenticity assessment, GPT-4 also scored 40% higher than the latest GPT-3.5 model.
"Soft technology" is equally important
Scientific and technological innovation plays a very prominent and important role in the overall situation of the mainland's modernization construction, especially in the current situation of increasingly fierce international scientific and technological competition.
ChatGPT has attracted strong attention around the world, providing a clear enlightenment for the mainland to promote scientific and technological innovation: soft technology represented by AI has become a key force driving hard technology innovation, which is as important as hard technology.
In terms of investment in soft and hard technology, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, BYD and other private technology leading enterprises have made considerable contributions, shouldered the important task of soft technology innovation in the era, and become a powerful force to promote technological change.
Needless to say, Huawei's emphasis on scientific research is evident in various authoritative lists every year, and Huawei's investment in scientific research has always ranked among the top global technology companies, and it ranks first and far ahead among Chinese enterprises.
Not long ago, Ren Zhengfei, founder and president of Huawei, also revealed at an internal symposium that in the past 2022, Huawei's R&D expenditure reached 23.8 billion US dollars.
Coincidentally, Alibaba has also maintained a high level of R&D investment. According to public information, Alibaba's R&D investment was 37.3 billion yuan in 2017, 40.6 billion yuan in 2018, and 50.1 billion yuan in 2019.
According to the latest news, Alibaba will invest more than 120 billion yuan in scientific research funds in 2022, focusing on promoting the development of cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and chip design.
In addition to them, Tencent has also been increasing R&D investment in recent years, and this figure has increased from 22.94 billion yuan in 2018 to 51.88 billion yuan in 2021, directly doubling R&D investment.
Last year, Tencent's scientific research investment remained above 15 billion yuan every quarter, and the third quarter continued to increase and maintain a high level of investment, and the financial report showed that Tencent's Q3 R&D investment reached 15.082 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%.
In the context of the big country game, improving the competitiveness of science and technology has become an inevitable path for science and technology enterprises.
In the future, we must transform from an economic power to a scientific and technological power, taking into account both soft and hard technology is not only the core of China's future, but also the call of the times.