Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI dencies, as well as its contributions, achievements, and potential. The irony here, of course, is that GPT-4 might not get funded with that pitch. The vision of AI it presents is both nuanced and strikingly different from how AI has generally been portrayed over the years. Granted, many of those portrayals have come from Hollywood, science fiction, and journalism, rather than from technologists working to make highly intelligent machines a reality. That said, many technologists and high-tech organizations, including OpenAI, do in fact have their sights set on a much more ambitious form of AI: machines that can operate com- pletely autonomously; machines that are capable of human-like common-sense reasoning and self-awareness. GPT-4 is not that, at least not yet. For now, it is neither all-knowing nor infallible. Instead, it is, in its own words, a “tool” that requires human “caution, curiosity, and responsibility” to operate most productively. I think this is the correct perspective. If you simply let GPT-4 do all the work, with no human oversight or engagement, it’s a less powerful tool. It’s still a very human tool, of course, because human texts are the basis for its generations. But when human users treat GPT-4 as a co-pilot or a collabo- rative partner, it becomes far more powerful. You compound GPT-4’s computational generativity, efficiency, synthetic powers, and capacity to scale with human creativity, human judgment, and human guidance. 20