What can we expect? Some technological improvements will be noticeable by next month, as GPT-4 is scheduled to be released. Those improvements will certainly be impressive. Faster, smoother, fewer lapses and multimodal models are expected to emerge with GPT-4. All the while, the algorithms will get smarter, with ever-larger knowledge bases and even more than the 175 billion parameters of GPT-3. Equally impressive will be the variety of applications and interfaces that emerge. These will be accelerated in part by the race between Microsoft/OpenAI and Alphabet/Google with a variety of emerging applications. One important aspect of the emergence of generative AI that has not received enough attention for those of us in higher education is that the output of these systems is not subject to copyright.
