Again in March, I used to be approached to contribute to a then-upcoming anthology challenge to guage an early entry model of the GPT-4 massive language mannequin, and write a brief essay about my experiences. Our immediate was to give attention to two core questions:

• How would possibly this know-how and its successors contribute to human flourishing?
• How would possibly we as society finest information the know-how to attain maximal advantages for humanity?

The anthology is now within the means of being rolled out, with twelve of the twenty essays, together with mine, public at the moment of writing.

As an experiment, I additionally requested GPT-4 itself to contribute an essay to the anthology from the identical prompts (and enjoying the position of a analysis mathematician), then I gave it my very own essay (which I wrote independently) and requested it each to rewrite its personal essay within the fashion of my very own, or to copyedit my essay into what it deemed to be a greater type. I recorded the outcomes of these experiments right here; the output was moderately nicely written and on subject, however not distinctive in content material.