{"id":23281,"date":"2023-11-30T08:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=23281"},"modified":"2023-11-30T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:51:16","slug":"one-year-openai-has-evolved-faster-than-a-human-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/30\/one-year-openai-has-evolved-faster-than-a-human-child\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year: OpenAI has Evolved Faster than a Human Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>As a frequent hackathon judge, I&#8217;m shocked at the evolution<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2462\" height=\"1522\" src=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM.png\" alt=\"I\u2019ve been a Hackathon Judge Several Times in 2023, Kneeling in foreground at the Craft Ventures HackAIthon in May 2023. SF, awarding the winner.\" class=\"wp-image-23283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM.png 2462w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM-1536x950.png 1536w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-5.51.55-AM-2048x1266.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2462px) 100vw, 2462px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I\u2019ve been a Hackathon Judge Several Times in 2023, Kneeling in foreground at the Craft Ventures HackAIthon in May 2023. SF, awarding the winner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My view from the front lines of AI in SF and Silicon Valley on the one-year anniversary since GPT became publicly available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GPT has taken the world by storm with over 100M users\u2014one of the fastest adoption rates ever, thanks to its simplicity of use with a text-based interface, requiring no coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love judging AI hackathons, I\u2019ve judged several since spring, and a few AI founders said I\u2019m the most frequent AI hackathon judge in SF, a title I hold with pride, as I love to serve the tech ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a frequent Hackathon judge, I\u2019m witnessing OpenAI\u2019s evolution first hand, as teams push GPT\u2019s capabilities in two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Hackathon is a 2-3 day event (usually on weekends) where developers form teams to build working prototype projects and compete for prizes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>While most projects won&#8217;t evolve into full-fledged companies, Hackathons showcase the potential of emerging technology and offer me a chance to meet founders for potential future investments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A distinctive trend in the AI market is non-technical teams assembling to leverage AI for coding. At these events, the critical factor is a unique business solution to real-world problems or access to untapped data sets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Spring 2023, small hackathon teams could use GPT to create a simple text-based chat bot in two days.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to November, I&#8217;ve judged several hackathons in SF and witnessed astonishing advancements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Several months later, in Winter 2023, small hackathon teams now can assemble &#8220;sentient creatures&#8221; like a 4-year old, in two days<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Seeing&#8221; with GPT-4 computer vision, what\u2019s happening in the real world,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Hearing&#8221; via voice commands and ambient sounds in the real world,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Thinking&#8221; through processing the above real-world input,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Learning&#8221; by accessing the pre-trained data GPT offers,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cReferencing\u201d exclusive data sets using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG),<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Speaking&#8221; with life-like audio voices, that have inflection and tone in any language,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Writing&#8221; through text communication, in any format or style required,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Drawing&#8221; by creating images spontaneously.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cInteracting\u201d: it proactively can engage in dialog, ask questions, or assign AI agents to complete tasks on their own.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In mere months, GPT-powered AI Hackathon projects have evolved from simple text-based chatbots to entities exhibiting sentience similar to that of a 4-year-old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM-1024x464.png\" alt=\"I was a Hackathon judge at Cerebral Valley\u2019s and MultiOn (AI Agents) in Nov 2023 at Shack15, I took this photo of the teams.\" class=\"wp-image-23284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM-1024x464.png 1024w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM-768x348.png 768w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM-1536x695.png 1536w, https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-30-at-6.06.29-AM-2048x927.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I was a Hackathon judge at Cerebral Valley\u2019s and MultiOn (AI Agents) in Nov 2023 at Shack15, I took this photo of the teams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been in Silicon Valley for 27 years, and have experienced five waves: I was an intern in DotCom, founder in Social era, founder in sharing economy, was a CMO in Web3, and am now head-first in the AI wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friends: I\u2019ve. Never. Seen. Such. Rapid. Evolution. In. Such. A. Short. Time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s very clear that AI is evolving faster than a humans can, this is exponential capabilities in such as short time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m committed to this AI wave and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7125505973019967489\/?utm_source=jowyang.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=one-year-openai-has-evolved-faster-than-a-human-child\">I&#8217;m excited to announce on Linkedin that I\u2019ve become a General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures<\/a>, where I will be a Venture Capital Investor in AI startups, alongside my friend of 20 years, Chris Yeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(This content was originally written by Organic Jeremiah and then copy-edited using GPT-4)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Year: OpenAI has Evolved Faster than a Human Child. 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