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Overview. In the following we try to analyze and contextualize the current known facts surrounding the OpenAI ChatGPT4 (CG4) system.

*	CG4: we offer a summary of how OpenAI describes it; put simply, what is CG4?

*	Impressions: our focus then moves to examine what some voices of concern are saying;

*	Impact: we then shift focus to what is being said about it; we note that in some cases people express astonishment and wonder; in other case they express fear and concern;

*	Scenarios: here we focus on how CG4 might be used be used in expected and  unexpected ways;

CG4 – what is it: CG4 is a narrow artificial intelligence system, it:
*	is based upon and is a refinement of its predecessor, the Chat GPT 3.5 system;
*	has been developed using the generative predictive transformer (GPT) model;
*	has been trained on a very large data set including textual material that can be found on the internet;
*	is capable of sustaining conversational interaction using text based input provided by a user;
*	can provide contextually relevant and consistent responses; 
*	can link topics in a chronologically consistent manner and refer back to them in current prompt requests; 
*	is a Large Language Models that uses prediction as the basis of its actions;
*	uses deep learning neural networks and very large training data sets;
*	uses a SAAS model; like Google Search, Youtube or Morningstar Financial; 

Impressions – What are people saying about it?
*   possess no consciousness, sentience, intentionality, motivation or self reflectivity;
*	is a narrow artificial intelligence; 
*	is available to a worldwide 24/7 audience;
*	can debug and write, correct and provide explanatory documentation to code; 
*	explain its responses
*	write music and poems
*	summarize convoluted documents or stories
*	score in the 90% level on the SAT, Bar and Medical Exams
*	provide answers to homework, 
*	self critiques and improves own responses;
*	provide explanations to difficult abstract questions
*	calibrate its response style to resemble known news presenters or narrators;
*	provides convincingly accurate responses to Turing Test questions; 

Impressions – Some Positive.
*	has demonstrated performance that suggests that it can pass the Turing Test;
*	CG4 derivative such as a CG5 could exhibit artificial general intelligence (AGI) capability; 
*	emergent capabilities;
*	spatial, mathematical reasoning; 

Impressions – Some Concerns. 
*	knowledge gaps:  inability to provide meaningful or intelligent responses on certain topics;
*	deception: might be capable to evade human control, replicate and devise independent agenda to pursue; 
*	intentionality: possibility of agenda actions being hazardous or inimical to human welfare;
*	economic disruption: places jobs at risk because it can now perform some tasks previously defined within a job description;
*	emergence: unforeseen, uncontrollable capabilities; Bengali self taught;
*	“hallucinations”: solution, answers not grounded in real world;

Impact. 
	
Speculations. The range of possible areas that CG4 is very broad; in fact, society wide; therefore we will try to maintain focus by presenting a few possible scenarios of how its capabilities might be used;
*	Influence, Persuasion;
*	Novel capabilities;